David Lochridge, OceanGate’s former director of operations, testified of unsafe practices, saying, ‘There was very little in the way of science’

A former OceanGate scientific director said the Titan submersible suffered a malfunction six days before imploding in June 2023, killing all five people on board.Steven Ross, a<a class="excerpt-read-m

David Lochridge, a former director of marine exploration for OceanGate who expressed safety concerns about the ill-fated Titan submersible, said Tuesday that company culture was centered on “making money” and “very little in the way of science.

OceanGate's Titan sub briefly became tangled up in the Titanic during a 2022 dive, according to a mission specialist who was on the dive.

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 Titan submersible had to abort a dive just days before the implosion that killed its five passengers as they explored the wreck of the Titanic, an ex-employee of the company that operated the vessel testified on Thursday.

The scientific director of the Titan testified Thursday that the sub malfunctioned days before the failed mission that ended in an implosion, claiming the lives of the crew and prompting an international rescue effort.