{"id":10943,"date":"2023-06-29T11:30:52","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T15:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/?p=10943"},"modified":"2023-06-29T11:30:53","modified_gmt":"2023-06-29T15:30:53","slug":"seas-the-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lawyer.com\/index.php\/seas-the-opportunity\/","title":{"rendered":"Seas the Opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Devastation at sea<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

A new anniversary may be tagged to the site where 111 years ago, the Titanic sank to the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean almost 400 miles off the coast of Newfoundland.\u00a0 On Father\u2019s Day this year, a submersible named the Titan, manned by the company OceanGate, had deployed to the depths of the sea in hopes that its passengers would view the wreckage of the Titanic.\u00a0 Four days after the Titan began its expedition, sections of the vessel were located on the ocean floor.\u00a0 Due to what the US Coast Guard has identified as a catastrophic implosion of the pressure chamber, the passengers perished.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Even though each passenger signed liability waivers, the owner of OceanGate may still face potential wrongful death lawsuits filed by family<\/a> members of the deceased.\u00a0 The five passengers aboard the submersible were OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, successful Pakistani philanthropist Shahzada Dawood and his teenage son Suleman, British businessman Hamish Harding, and Titanic expert and former officer of the French Navy Paul-Henry Nargeolet.\u00a0 If families decide to take legal action, the degree of OceanGate\u2019s negligence would need to be determined, as well as the company\u2019s knowledge of any defects in the vessel\u2019s construction, equipment, durability, or electrical capabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to a previous lawsuit filed by former OceanGate employee, David Lochridge, there were significant safety concerns<\/a> over the distance the vessel could travel.\u00a0 In his position, Lochridge offered corrective solutions to the posed issues, but claimed that he was not provided information about the submersible in its entirety.\u00a0 Specifically, he was initially forbidden from reading the viewport data, but later learned that the Titan\u2019s viewport was only certified to reach depths of 1,300 meters.\u00a0 The purpose of OceanGate\u2019s Titan, however, was to take high paying tourists to the Titanic wreck at almost 4,000 meters.\u00a0 OceanGate failed to heed Lochridge\u2019s concerns, and instead fired him and sued him for unveiling confidential information, data which might have later prevented a devastating loss. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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