Titanic Submarine: Expert Who Begged Off a Trip Explains Saw an Implosion Coming
“It wouldn’t take much of a failure to cause an implosion, and it would have been instantaneous,” Robert Mester told The Daily Beast.
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“It wouldn’t take much of a failure to cause an implosion, and it would have been instantaneous,” Robert Mester told The Daily Beast.
Photo illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/ReutersWhen OceanGate Inc. offered Robert Mester a voyage aboard the Antipodes, a predecessor to the Titan, the privately operated five-person submersible that imploded while descending to the wreckage of the Titanic, he politely begged off the expedition.“They were using off-the-shelf hardware from Radio Shack to operate inside, and quite frankly we’re talking about an environment that requires robust equipment that has certifications