{"id":56178,"date":"2023-06-23T18:25:13","date_gmt":"2023-06-23T09:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2023\/jun\/23\/titanic-sub-live-updates-us-navy-catastrophic-implosion-submarine-victims-titan-missing-submersible-latest-news"},"modified":"2023-06-24T07:04:11","modified_gmt":"2023-06-23T22:04:11","slug":"titanic-sub-live-updates-us-navy-detected-titans-likely-implosion-hours-into-dive-tributes-paid-to-victims-latest-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=56178","title":{"rendered":"Titan tragedy: Canada launches investigation; CEO of sub company \u2018dismissed safety fears\u2019 \u2013 as it happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian transport watchdog to launch safety investigation; Stockton Rush reportedly emailed deep-sea expert saying concerns were \u2018baseless cries\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/jun\/23\/titanic-sub-us-navy-james-cameron-detected-likely-implosion-titan-submersible\">Full report: Investigations under way as questions grow over design<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>William Kohnen, chairman of the Manned Underwater Vehicles Committee, said the regulations for building submersible vessels were \u201cwritten in blood\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Kohnen\u2019s organisation, based in Los Angeles in the US, raised safety concerns in 2018 about OceanGate\u2019s development of Titan.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re only smart because we remember what we wrote and what we did wrong last time.<\/p>\n<p>The rules are written in blood \u2013 it is in there because it caused trouble before, and to say: \u2018Well I think we\u2019re just going to ignore that and go on our own way,\u2019 suggests there might be a bit of input of wisdom that this might not be the best decision.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s too early to tell, there\u2019s data that\u2019s going to have to be collected over the coming days, weeks and months, and I\u2019m sure the team will work with whoever is conducting the investigations to cooperate and provide as much information as possible.<\/p>\n<p>At that point, we\u2019ll be in a better position to tell (what went wrong).<\/p>\n<p>There are regulations in place but as you can imagine there aren\u2019t many subs that go that deep, so the regulations are pretty sparse and many of them are antiquated and designed for specific instances.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s tricky to navigate those regulatory schemes.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2023\/jun\/23\/titanic-sub-live-updates-us-navy-catastrophic-implosion-submarine-victims-titan-missing-submersible-latest-news\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian transport watchdog to launch safety investigation; Stockton Rush reportedly emailed deep-sea expert saying concerns were \u2018baseless cries\u2019Full report: Investigations under way as questions grow over designWilliam Kohnen, chairman of the Manned &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3812,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[60,2939,52,473,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pakistan","category-titanic-sub-incident","category-uk-news","category-us-military","category-us-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3812"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56178"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56198,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56178\/revisions\/56198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}