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The Titanic Tourist Sub Was Always Going to Kill Its Passengers

The Polar Prince, the support ship for the Titan submersible
The Polar Prince, the support ship for the Titan submersible Photo: Jordan Pettitt – PA Images / Contributor (Getty Images)

It’s hard to believe it’s been almost a year since OceanGate’s Titan submersible disappeared. Surely, that happened at least three years ago, right? After several days of searching, experts determined that the sub most likely imploded, killing everyone on board. Debris and possible human remains were eventually recovered, but that was it for the Titan submersible. Thanks to new research, though, we may finally have a better idea of exactly what went wrong. Or rather, new research appears to confirm what we knew all along — the sub was basically designed from the beginning to fail. – Collin Woodard, Jalopnik Read More