But Brian Weed, a former passenger, told Insiders the submarine failed a test dive in 2021.
The reason was that the Titan’s submersible engines stopped working and became stuck underwater for more than two hours.
Weed also revealed that the Titan submarine was no deeper than 100 feet at the time.
Tests on the submarine at the Deep Ocean Test Facility, part of the United States Naval Academy, also found that the carbon fiber hull showed “signs of cyclic fatigue” at shallower depths.
As a result, OceanGate had to cancel its plans to dive the Titanic in 2018, 2019 and 2020.
