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#Titanic: The unknowns of the missing submersible Titan. Charles Pellegrino, author, The Ghosts of the Titanic; Anthony Al-Khoury, researcher.

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 22 June 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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#Titanic: The unknowns of the missing submersible Titan. Charles Pellegrino, author, The Ghosts of the Titanic; Anthony Al-Khoury, researcher.
https://abcnews.go.com/International/missing-titanic-tourist-submersible-timeline/story?id=100265183
https://www.amazon.com/Ghosts-Titanic-James-Cameron/dp/0688139558

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0:00.0

I was set on being a Mounted Police Officer from a young age, but I knew it

0:04.5

had to move to make it happen and for me the Met presented endless opportunities.

0:08.9

From joining as a PC at age 23 I went into a variety of roles from emergency

0:14.6

response to public order policing. As a sergeant in the Mounted Branch my dream job

0:19.9

became reality. Now I've been promoted to Inspector, I can't wait to see where

0:24.3

my career takes me next. Become a Met Police Officer, search Met Police

0:28.4

careers.

0:34.8

This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Batsuit with Anthony Alcuri, a researcher of

0:39.5

Titanic and Charles Pelagrino, a diver to the Titanic more than once and also the

0:46.0

author of the Ghosts of the Titanic. The Titanic legend grows. Anthony you tell me

0:50.9

the Ocean Gate Expedition website has an explanation about an early warning

0:56.6

system on board Titan. What do you learn Anthony? Well they describe this

1:02.2

failsafe mechanism that will alert the passengers and the crew of the

1:08.3

submarsible in advance of a potential breach in the hull or a compromise in

1:14.5

the carbon filament composite hull on the exterior and it was thought that

1:20.4

this for warning of impending disaster would allow the crew to rapidly ascend

1:27.3

and therefore believe the oceanic pressure that threatens to essentially

1:33.4

implode the sub. It was just this mechanism of preventing foreseeable disaster

1:38.5

and that's what was relied upon to as a safety mechanism to abort the

1:45.5

mission and rise to the surface in a potential disaster. One very much like

1:50.6

the one we're witnessing now in real time. You also speculate there's an

1:57.8

analogy with Titanic. What is it Anthony? Well in the Titanic there the

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