Submersible deep-sea tourism poses risk

Friday, June 23, 2023

In the last few years, profitable space tourism businesses owned by billionaires like Elon Musk, Jeff
Bezos and Richard Branson are creating headlines for sending the paying clients into space.

However, in a recent incident, deep-ocean search, OceanGate, the firm whose Titan submersible went
missing with five people on board near the Titanic wreck is on the edge and potential risk of this new
tourism.

On its website, OceanGate advertises its ground- breaking usage of resources and high-tech expertise
and its original launch and retrieval platform, making the deep ocean more available for human compared to the times before.

However, Jon Council, an expert in submersible and the President of the Historical Diving Society, has warned that there are a whole lot of things that can become erroneous.

Council said that while submersible tourism is quite popular for decades, carrying several paying customers into the lowest points of the deep-sea in directed submerged vessels, OceanGate is definitely in a league of its own. Not only is its charge for the Titanic voyage an enormous $250,000, no other company has tried to take clients in the deep sea as far as the Titanic wreckage, which is around 13,000 feet, or 2.4 miles, below the surface.

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