The old video shows Titan Sub spinning out of control on a mission. New footage from a BBC documentary about the Titan submarine depicts a harrowing incident in which the craft spun wildly after the operator lost command.
The documentary follows the sub on a mission in 2022.
As the Titan’s five passengers approached the Titanic disaster, pilot Scott Griffith warned the squad of an imminent problem and confirmed the submersible’s spiraling motion was beyond his grasp. The BBC Travel Show captured the crew’s distressed reaction as they received Mr. Griffith’s devastating news about Titan’s failing thrusters.
Fortunately, the crew was able to reprogram the controller, allowing Titan to reroute its course and successfully resume the mission.
Old video shows Titan Sub spinning out of control on a mission, watch the video:
“Scott is like ‘Oh no, we have a problem’,” one of the passengers is quoted as saying in the documentary.
“I was thinking we’re not going to make it,” another passenger, a woman, says in the short clip uploaded on BBC Select‘s YouTube channel.
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According to Sky News, OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush assisted Mr. Griffith on the ship above the surface of the ocean.
Mr. Rush’s solution was shockingly straightforward.
“Tell him to hold it the other way,” he instructed.
According to the CEO, rotating the controller 90 degrees clockwise will cause the submersible to move ahead again.
The film went viral shortly after a New Yorker piece said OceanGate staff were upset by the sub’s dependability and Mr Stockton’s “ego” in 2018.
The OceanGate vessel went missing on June 18, with British explorer Hamish Harding, diving company CEO Stockton Rush, French submersible pilot Paul-Henri Nargeolet, Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood, and his son Suleman on board. Four days later, the US Coast Guard confirmed that the Titan submersible had suffered a catastrophic implosion, resulting in the death of all five individuals.
