“I have to apologize, we are still demobilizing, there’s a lot of emotions, people are tired,” he said, choking up and fighting back tears.
The head of the company responsible for deploying the deep-sea robot that discovered the debris of the doomed Titan submersible fought back tears while recounting the mission to reporters. “We were always conscious of the crew of the Titan,” Ed Cassano, CEO of Pelagic Research Services, revealed at a news conference.
“Plain and simple, we were focused on rescue.” Pelagic deployed Odysseus 6K, a remotely operated vehicle, which took about 90 minutes to reach the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, where the Titanic wreckage lay. But once Odysseus discovered the Titan’s debris, all hopes of a rescue were crushed. “By 12 o’clock, sadly, a rescue turned into a recovery,” Cassano said. Large
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