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Nytimes front page three days ago8/26/2023 The government of Newfoundland and Labrador told CBC News on Wednesday morning it has no responsibility over the Titan. The company said that classing agencies often have a "multi-year approval cycle due to lack of pre-existing standards, especially, for example, in the case of many of OceanGate's innovations." "Bringing an outside entity up to speed on every innovation before it is put into real-world testing is anathema to rapid innovation," the post reads. The post was centred on regulation slowing down innovation. Regulation stifling innovation?Ī blog post on OceanGate's website in 2019 responds to questions about why the company's submersibles are not "classed" by any independent organization. They "agreed to disagree" on the matter of certification, but Kohnen said OceanGate Expeditions did change their marketing and add text to their waivers to emphasize that the submersible was experimental and uncertified. Kohnen said the letter was never formally sent to Rush, however the two men spoke about the concerns in person, and Rush told Kohnen he'd received a leaked draft of the letter. It goes on to say the company's marketing material was "at minimum, misleading to the public and breaches an industry-wide professional code of conduct."ĭuration 1:59 Years before OceanGate’s submersible went missing on the way to the wreck of the Titanic, an industry group wrote a letter criticizing the company’s approach to safety and lack of oversight. "Our apprehension is that the current 'experimental' approach adopted by OceanGate could result in negative outcomes (from minor to catastrophic) that would have serious consequences for everyone in the industry," it reads. The letter outlined the concerns of more than three-dozen scientists, explorers and industry leaders. There's a five to 10 per cent fringe, so in that aspect they are an outlier, but sure, in the deep submersibles they really stand out." "Out of the entire population of submersibles, 90 to 95 per cent are certified. "There are only 10 submarines in the world that can go 4,000m or deeper and all of them are certified except the OceanGate," he told CBC News. However, Kohnen stressed this company is an outlier. There is no law in the United States, where OceanGate Expeditions is headquartered, that a submersible has to be certified by any regulatory body. Dozens of industry insiders penned a warning to OceanGate Expeditions CEO Stockton Rush in 2018 saying he was walking a dangerous path by not submitting to a certification process for his submersibles.ĬBC News has spoken with two signatories to the letter, including Will Kohnen, chair of the Marine Technology Society's submarine group.
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