The lawsuit alleges that the Titan’s crew knew they were about to die before it exploded.

A year after the Titan disappeared to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean (north), about 600 kilometers southeast of Canada, with five passengers on board who wanted to explore the seabed, a lawsuit for negligent homicide has been filed. The lawsuit alleges that the crew of the submersible knew they were going to die before it exploded.

According to GuardianThe lawsuit was filed by the family of French explorer Paul-Henri Narjollet, who died in the explosion. Known as “Mr. Titanic,” he had participated in 37 dives before the sinking and was on board the submersible when it went down in June 2023.

All five crew members who paid €230,000 to visit the Titanic wreck died, including British explorer Hamish Harding, British Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman, and Oceangate CEO Stockton Rush.

According to the same source, Nargeole’s family filed a lawsuit for negligent homicide against OceanGate, the company that made the submersible and organized the trip, which has since gone out of business.

THAT process accuses OceanGate and Rush of negligence and claims that many details about the ship’s faults and deficiencies were offeredcompletely hidden from Nargeolet.

“The catastrophic explosion that took Nargeole’s life was caused by the persistent carelessness, recklessness and negligence” of OceanGate, Rush and other defendants, according to the lawsuit, which seeks at least $50 million in damages. The same claims that they probably knew the submersible was about to explode.

“While the exact cause of the accident may never be determined, experts agree that the Titan crew would have known exactly what was happening.“, – the process referred to claims Guardian.

“An ‘acoustic safety system’ would have warned the crew that the carbon fibre hull was cracking under the intense pressure, prompting the pilot to reduce weight and attempt to abort the flight. Common sense dictates that the crew knew full well they were going to die before they died,” he argues.

Because the safety mechanism to lighten the weight in response to the hull crack failed to work, he claims the crew “could quite easily hear the cracking sound of carbon fiber, which became increasingly intense as the weight of the water pressed down on the Titan’s hull.”

“Experts estimate that they would have continued to descend, fully aware of the ship’s irreversible flaws, in horror and mental anguish, before the Titan finally exploded,” he says.

Last week, Nargeole’s close friend Rory Golden, who was on board the submarine support vessel when the disaster happened, talked about fear and an atmosphere of false hope during a failed rescue operation. “We had this image in our heads. They were down there, running out of oxygen in the cold, and they were terrified,” He said That BBC News.

Following the disaster, the US Coast Guard conducted an investigation. incidents to determine its cause.