his hand kind of hit the thruster too fast and it went into a piece of rebar coming out of the size of the ship. that s another possibility that the submarine could have hit something at a speed that was enough to knock it out of balance. the titan had done a number of dives to the titanic over the past couple of years. and in 2021 court filing oceangate said that the titan itself underwent more than 50 test dives. is there any way that i mean i guess this is what the testing has to yield to determine whether carbon fiber played a role, but that all of that just suddenly you would not get a warning and then it would snap or what? i mean it depends on where the breach was. that s the key thing they re going to see. whether it was at the window or at one of the openings or whether there was just a titan malfunction in one of the
o has not responded to cnn oceangate has not responded to certify the titan. the company has not said why. oceangate s cofounder who left the company in 2013 cautioned against rushing to judgment. there are teams on site still collecting data for the next few days, weeks, maybe months and it s going to be a long time before we know exactly what happened down there. and in terms of what s happening out there, let me give you a quick update in terms of the north atlantic activities. the navy has announced that it is pulling back removing its deep ocean salvage system from the area. however, those smaller robotic vehicles, the rovs, those will continue to try to salvage
the marine certification company tells cnn they declined a request to certify the titan. they did not say why. all right. thank you very much. i want to go to greg stone now the chief ocean scientist for the metals company. he knew stockton rush and a fbi special agent. so i appreciate both of you very much. greg, obviously we re all sorry for this tragic loss and i m sorry for the loss of someone that you knew. right. that you knew personally. obviously carbon fiber is the sub was up and down multiple times to the titanic. i don t know exactly how many but it had been back and forth and back and forth. carbon fiber of course is relatively new. certainly under water this was on the forefront of innovation. what do you think caused this vessel to explode, greg? well, i m a marine biologist
tonight. exactly. we ve been hearing more examples from people who have come forward and said that they took issue with ocean gate. they took issue with the safety of the titan. this as canada s transportation safety board has announced today that it is launching its own investigation into what happened. these are some of the first images of the remotely operated vehicles which found portions of the titan s hull and continue tonight on a new mission to search and map the debris site. the rovs will continue searching for more evidence of the accident. the submersible lost contact with the ship on the surface one hour and 45 minutes into its descent on sunday. the other thing i heard was that a pl had contacted the surface ship and said there s a problem and we re dropping weight and surfacing immediately. i can t verify that but that to me meant somethingte did not co
and as this new mission is underway at this hour we re learning troubling new details about the titan submersible. a marine certification company telling cnn it rejected a request to certify the doomed titan. it didn t say why it declined approval in 2019 when are they sought it but ocean gate defended its decision to forego certification on its website saying bringing an outside antety up to speed before real world testing is not rapid innovation. now, there were some potential passengers though who were worried about safety on the titan. these worries were part of the reason why las vegas investor jay bloom passed on two seats on the last trip to the titanic. seats that eventually went to another father and son. now i ll speak to bloom in a