‘As a submersible designer myself, I designed and built a sub to go to the deepest place in the ocean ,three times deeper than Titanic. So I understand the engineering problems associated with building this type of vehicle and all the safety protocols that you have to go through,’ he stated.
‘It’s absolutely critical for people to to really get the take-home message from this, from our effort here, is deep submergence diving is a mature art. ‘From the early 60s where there were a few accidents, nobody was killed in the deep submerges until now, is more time than between Kitty Hawk and the flight of the first 747.
‘The safety record is the gold standard. Absolutely. Not only no fatalities but no major incidents requiring all of these assets to converge to a site. Of course, that’s the nightmare that we’ve all lived with, since all of us entered this field of deep exploration we live with it in the back of our minds.’