Court documents reveal a former OceanGate employee had several safety complaints over the tourist submersible—and then he was fired.

  • Freeman@lemmy.pub
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    1 year ago

    It wasn’t really sudden. Best they had was text messages that were occurring at a 15 minute interval. They stopped 1:45 into the dive.

    They waited until 30 minutes after they were supposed to be back to report it missing (which I think is standard)

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      1 year ago

      They had two communication systems. They had the text messaging and an automated “ping” that went every 15 minutes. Both stopped suddenly at 1:45.

      Quote from apnews

      “There are only two things that could mean. Either they lost all power or the ship developed a hull breach and it imploded instantly.”