They had paid hundreds of thousands of dollars, but the prize for the passengers onboard the OceanGate submersible, Titan, was supposed to be worth every cent. They were promised the chance to visit the most iconic shipwreck in history, the Titanic.
But somewhere along the journey, 3.8 kilometres down into the hostile depths of the north Atlantic Ocean, catastrophe struck.
As Amelia Adams reports, valuable lessons must be learned from this tragedy.
The brutal reality is this wasn’t an adventure. Rather, like the Titanic, it was a disaster just waiting to happen.