Titan sub broke days before doomed dive, says science chief
Rachel Looker BBC News, Washington 1:01 Titan sub mission specialist: Without risk, the world would still be flat A sub that imploded on a deadly voyage to the wreck of the Titanic, killing all five people aboard, had malfunctioned days before its final dive last year, a public inquiry has heard. The former scientific director of OceanGate, the company behind the Titan sub, said the incident had caused passengers to "tumble about" and the craft to crash into bulkheading, leaving one passenger "hanging upside down" and others clinging on. Steven Ross added that he did not know whether the Titan's hull was inspected for damage after the episode. Mr Ross said it took a support crew more than an hour to get the sub out of the water after the malfunction, days before its final trip. Earlier on Thursday, a mission member aboard the sub's support vessel described watching the crew and passengers depart for the Titanic wreck last June, saying: "I saw five peopl...
