![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/my-submarine-trip-to-titanic-was-aborted/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/0_OceanGate-is-trying-to-scrub-itself-from-the-internet-after-Titan-sub-disaster.jpg&description=Science journalist David Pogue reflects on his fortunate escape from a tragic dive to the Titanic wreck, realizing that the submersible he was meant to dive in was a 'time bomb' A journalist who rode on a submarine dive to the Titanic wreckage now feels like he "won Russian roulette" after the mission was abruptly aborted. Science and technology writer David Pogue had the opportunity to dive to the wreck of the Titanic as part of a mission with OceanGate last year. However, the dive was abruptly aborted due to two black floats becoming untied from the sub's platform, which Mr Pogue considered a "dumb" reason to cancel at the time. He said he was "disappointed and annoyed" when the dive to the Titanic wreck was aborted due what he saw as a trivial reason. However, just one year later the tragic last dive of the Titan submersible claimed the lives of five people after a catastrophic implosion while again trying to reach the Titanic wreck. Now, the journalist realises his luck that his trip was aborted and says he feels like he "won at the Russian roulette", as he wrote in an article for the New York magazine. Mr Pogue told the Express of his own experience: "We were only 37ft below the waves when mission control aborted our dive, for what I thought was a really dumb reason: two black, oval floats had come untied from the sub's submerged launching platform. "The floats weren't part of the submersible and would have no effect on the dive itself. Who cared about the stupid platform? I was disappointed and annoyed." The journalist had signed a waiver acknowledging the risks involved in the dive, but he didn't think much of it, believing it was just a legal formality. He had confidence in the sub's safety, the expertise of OceanGate's CEO, Stockton Rush, and the redundancy of life-support systems on the Titan. Mr Pogue said: "I really didn't consider the waiver a big deal. You sign exactly the same sort of waiver before you go scuba diving, skydiving, whitewater rafting, a){kind=link}
Science journalist David Pogue reflects on his fortunate escape from a tragic dive to the Titanic wreck, realizing that the submersible he was meant to dive in was a ‘time bomb’
A journalist who rode on a submarine dive to the Titanic wreckage now feels like he “won Russian roulette” after the mission was abruptly aborted.
Science and technology writer David Pogue had the opportunity to dive to the wreck of the Titanic as part of a mission with OceanGate last year.
However, the dive was abruptly aborted due to two black floats becoming untied from the sub’s platform, which Mr Pogue considered a “dumb” reason to cancel at the time.
He said he was “disappointed and annoyed” when the dive to the Titanic wreck was aborted due what he saw as a trivial reason.