Rush planned on using most of Cyclops I’s design in his would-be Titanic submersible, named Cyclops II, according to the New Yorker. McCallum, who said he gave marketing and logistics tips to Rush, ultimately visited OceanGate’s Seattle-area workshop, to look at OceanGate’s first submersible, Cyclops I – a retrofitted research vessel that could descend no more than 1,500ft.
Rush’s plan was to go a step further and build a vehicle specifically for this multi-passenger expedition.” “At the time, I was the only person he knew who had run commercial expedition trips to Titanic. “He wanted me to run his Titanic operation for him,” McCallum told the New Yorker. OceanGate set its sights on Titanic exploration around 2015 company co-founder Stockton Rush reached out to McCallum, the magazine said. Government authorities and OceanGate apparently did not act on their warnings. OceanGate submersible was not for ‘joyrides’, claims co-founder – videoĪn expansive New Yorker feature published on 1 July detailed McCallum and other industry members’ efforts to sound the alarm about OceanGate’s vessels. Submersibles “don’t carry a flight data recorder, and so you are reliant on communications between the submersible and the ship above – unless the log shows a concern from the submersible, then we’ll never know,” said McCallum, who has operated multiple commercial submarines to about 11,000 meters (36,089 ft). The known circumstances are limited: the submersible was “located pretty much exactly where it was supposed to be” and that the implosion took mere milliseconds, McCallum said. “You would need to read the dive log to know what weights were being dropped immediately prior to the catastrophe.” “Sometimes, they lose a little bit of weight to slow down as they’re approaching the bottom and sometimes, they lose a lot of weight in order to ascend,” McCallum explained to the Guardian. Rob McCallum, a veteran submersibles expert who started bringing tourists to Titanic wreckage in the 2000s using Russian submarines – and who was among industry members voicing concerns about OceanGate before the catastrophe – said that submersibles jettison weight to control their buoyancy.
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