Mike Reiss, writer for The Simpsons, has disclosed that he took a journey on the lost Titanic submarine last year – and he’s not optimistic about the current rescue operation.
Titan, the submarine, has been lost in the seas since Sunday (June 18).
The craft, carrying five passengers, intended to examine the sunken Titanic ship’s ruins, but it’s now a race against time to discover the group alive as their oxygen levels dwindle.
On BBC Breakfast on Monday (June 19), showrunner Mike confessed that he “doesn’t know” how the submarine may be recovered given how deep it is and that he is “not optimistic.”
He also revealed his own underwater experiences.
‘I know the logistics of it and I know how vast the ocean is and how very tiny this craft is,’ he began.
‘If it’s down at the bottom I don’t know how anyone is going to be able to access it, much less bring it back up.’
Mike then explained that he went on three different dives with the company OceanGate Expeditions, which owns Titan, and that they ‘almost always lost communication’.
‘I got on the sub and at the back of my mind was, “Well, I may never get off this thing,” that’s always with you.’
He clarified, though, that he is not suggesting the ship is’shoddy,’ but that it is ‘new technology,’ and that they are ‘learning it as they go.’
‘You have to just remember the early days of the space programme or the early days of aviation, where you just make a lot of mistakes on the way to figuring out what you’re doing.’
He said that the hazards are made obvious to the present missing passengers based on their experience.
‘People should know, to even get on the boat that takes you to the Titanic, you sign a massive waiver that lists one way after another that you could die on the trip,’ he said, adding that the documents mention death ‘three times on page one’.
‘Nobody who is in this situation was caught off guard. It’s very bad things broke this way but you all know what you’re getting into.
‘It’s really exploration. It’s not a vacation and it’s not thrill-seeking. It’s not like sky diving, or something. These are explorers and travellers who want to see something.’
The present passengers on the submarine are claimed to have paid $250,000 (£195k) for the trip.
They began with a four-day supply of oxygen, which will run out at 10.30 a.m. GMT on Thursday (June 22).
British millionaire adventurer Hamish Harding, French diver Paul-Henri Nargeolet, Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his 19-year-old son Sulaiman Dawood, and OceanGate founder Stockton Rush are now missing.
Source My Celebrity Life.
