OceanGate’s Titan subersible (Picture: Reuters)
A former contractor has revealed that OceanGate‘s Titan submersible used a hand-typed Excel spreadsheet to trace its navigation, elevating considerations in regards to the vessel’s security earlier than its underwater implosion throughout a Titanic expedition in July final yr, in accordance with the Unbiased.
In a listening to held by the US Coast Guard Marine Board of Investigation, Antonella Wilby, a former OceanGate contractor, disclosed that the navigation system trusted group members manually coming into information right into a spreadsheet.“There have been delays as a result of there was this guide strategy of first writing down the lat-long coordinates after which typing them in,” she defined. Wilby described the tactic as “completely idiotic,” and mentioned she had questioned the follow however was dismissed for not being “solution-oriented.”
An animated recreation of the incident confirmed the Titan shedding communication at a depth of 3346 metres.
Tony Nissen, a former engineering director and worker at OceanGate, claimed that he refused to take part in a check dive of the submersible.
The Titan implosion killed all 5 people aboard together with OceanGate’s CEO Stockton Rush who utilised an ultra-short baseline (USBL) acoustic positioning system that decided the submersible’s velocity, depth, and place by way of sound pings. Nonetheless, the necessary information was first transcribed right into a pocket book earlier than being entered into the spreadsheet.
In a listening to held by the US Coast Guard Marine Board of Investigation, Antonella Wilby, a former OceanGate contractor, disclosed that the navigation system trusted group members manually coming into information right into a spreadsheet.“There have been delays as a result of there was this guide strategy of first writing down the lat-long coordinates after which typing them in,” she defined. Wilby described the tactic as “completely idiotic,” and mentioned she had questioned the follow however was dismissed for not being “solution-oriented.”
An animated recreation of the incident confirmed the Titan shedding communication at a depth of 3346 metres.
Tony Nissen, a former engineering director and worker at OceanGate, claimed that he refused to take part in a check dive of the submersible.
The Titan implosion killed all 5 people aboard together with OceanGate’s CEO Stockton Rush who utilised an ultra-short baseline (USBL) acoustic positioning system that decided the submersible’s velocity, depth, and place by way of sound pings. Nonetheless, the necessary information was first transcribed right into a pocket book earlier than being entered into the spreadsheet.
