William Kohnen, chairman of the Manned Underwater Vehicles Committee, a voluntary industry body, said OceanGate was 'not willing' to undergo a standard certification process for the Titan submersible. | via philstarlife
, after Rush and four other people were lost in the disaster while descending to the North Atlantic shipwreck.
"He was extremely committed to safety," Soehnlein told Britain's Times Radio, while stressing he was not involved in Titan's experimental design. Soehnlein noted that Cameron himself had conducted many submersible descents, including more than 30 to the Titanic site, and to the Earth's deepest point in the Pacific Mariana Trench.
Kohnen told BBC radio that his Los Angeles-based committee raised safety concerns in 2018 about OceanGate's development of Titan.
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