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The Marine Institute and OceanGate signed a partnership in early 2023, but it remains unclear if the Memorial University campus knew the ill-fated Titan submersible was unregulated, unclassed and uncertified.
The school said Tuesday that the term “expeditions” used in the memorandum of understanding was meant generally and did not specifically refer to missions aboard the Titan.
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A research institute at Newfoundland and Labrador's Memorial University threw open its "proverbial doors" last year to the company that owned the doomed Titan submersible, less than a year before the vessel suffered a catastrophic implosion while diving to the Titanic shipwreck.
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Memorial University signed an agreement with OceanGate promising students and faculty opportunities ‘to join OceanGate expeditions to support research endeavours’