The Polar Prince ship also asked about the source of the noise, but the Titan submarine was unable to identify it.
“Can you identify the source?” asked the crew of the Polar Prince.
“No,” replied the crew of the Titan submarine.
Then at 0940, the Polar Prince requested RTM status from the Titan submarine.
At 09:42, the Titan submarine reported that the RTM indicator was red, but the crackling at the ship’s stern had stopped.
At the same time, the submarine Titan reported that the ascent was very slow.
At 09:46, at a depth of 3457, the Titan submarine reported that there was a lot of noise behind the ship.
“Red writing on A-energy bus. I switched to B. More noise behind at 3457 m,” revealed the crew of the Titan submarine.
Thereafter, at 09:48, the Polar Prince attempted to contact the crew of the Titan submarine, but received no response.
As of 9:57 a.m., Polar Prince received no response from the Titan submarine crew.
Only achieved 13 out of 90 dives on the Titanic
It turns out that OceanGate’s Titan submarine had only made it to the Titanic about 13 times out of 90 dives.
According to insiders, this means the Titan submarine has only a 14 percent success rate in plunging into the depths of Titanic.
OceanGate claims to have conducted more than 14 expeditions and 200 dives in the Pacific, Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico.
According to Forbes, the first successful dive to the Titanic will take place in 2021.
But since the submarine’s catastrophic explosion on June 18, which killed all five people on board, experts have debated many questions about its design.
Rob McCallum, who provided consulting services to OceanGate in 2009, has raised security concerns with its CEO Stockton Rush since 2018.
One of the biggest concerns of submarine experts is that no regulatory body has certified or approved the submarine.
The form states that Titan’s submarines “were constructed of a material not yet widely used in manned submarines.”
OceanGate co-founder Guillermo Sohnlein said the submarine has undergone a “rigorous testing program”, was developed over a 14-year period and is “extremely robust”.
