OceanGate's website still has advertisements for upcoming voyages to the wreckage of the Titanic, even after the recent tragedy.
In a report by Insider, the website said that bookings for the 2023 expedition had begun and that interested parties should contact the company for information on remaining openings. The undersea expedition business has also scheduled two trips to the wreckage for June 2024.
The website seems not updated, too, since it said that French diver Paul-Henri "PH" Nargeolet may be joining the expedition. Nargeolet was among those who died on the Titan submarine earlier this month.
The Titan Tragedy and the Rescue Effort That Captivated the Globe
Five people were killed when the OceanGate sub imploded several hours into a dive into the Titanic wreck. After losing contact with its surface vehicle two hours into its plunge, the craft sparked a widely publicized rescue effort. Aside from Nargeolet, the ship also carried OceanGate's CEO, Stockton Rush.
British millionaire Hamish Harding, 58, Pakistani-born businessman Shahzada Dawood, 48, and his 19-year-old son Suleman, were also slain.
The US Coast Guard said on Wednesday, June 28, that they had recovered "presumed" human remains from the Titan submersible.
It is being looked into by authorities in the US and Canada as to what caused the submersible to implode.
There have been serious questions about the ship's safety ever since it vanished, and numerous former passengers have come forward with complaints.
Actor Alan Estrada, as reported by Insider, said that his expedition to the Titanic was cut short by a communication breakdown aboard the Titan submersible.
A lawsuit filed in 2018 seemed to indicate that the business had been told about safety concerns with their submersible years before the disaster. In the case, a former employee of OceanGate claims to have warned that inadequate "quality control and safety" standards, of which "paying passengers would not be aware," may threaten the safety of the sub.
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Wrecked Titan Sub and Presumed Human Remains Brought to Shore
The US Coast Guard retrieved the tourist submersible's presumed human bodies and wreckage from the ocean below and transferred them to Canada on Wednesday.
According to Reuters, the Coast Guard said a light patrol boat would transfer the debris to a US port for processing and testing by a marine board of investigation created this week to study the Titan's disappearance.
No details were given about the site's suspected remains.
On Wednesday morning, the CBC showed a crane lifting the submersible's nose and other smashed pieces covered in white cloth off the deck of a Canadian-flagged vessel.
The mission to the Titanic began at St. John's, where footage revealed a smashed chunk of the Titan's hull and equipment with hanging cables being removed.
The debris will help explain the Titan's disastrous collapse earlier this month when the 22-foot vessel brought five passengers to the Titanic shipwreck in the North Atlantic.
