Court documents reveal a former OceanGate employee had several safety complaints over the tourist submersible—and then he was fired.
Supposedly there is oxygen for 4 days, so it it is in tact and they can get it to the surface by early Thursday, maybe.
But more likely there was a structural failure and they are all dead, crushed by the extreme depth.
The sudden lose of communication to me screams catastrophic structural failure…
It wasn’t really sudden. Best they had was text messages that were occurring at a 15 minute interval. They stopped 1:45 into the dive.
They waited until 30 minutes after they were supposed to be back to report it missing (which I think is standard)
They had two communication systems. They had the text messaging and an automated “ping” that went every 15 minutes. Both stopped suddenly at 1:45.
Quote from apnews
“There are only two things that could mean. Either they lost all power or the ship developed a hull breach and it imploded instantly.”