Stay dry on the Titan submarine by staying away from the portholes and on the rubber mats.
It is not tall enough to stand up. However, there is enough space to lie down and squat.
But when you approach the titanium dome portholes at the front of the ship to view the wreckage of the Titanic, it gets very cold. According to explorer and documentary filmmaker Alfred Hagen, who traveled by submarine in 2021 and 2022, condensation will form inside the dome-shaped area of ​​the submarine, increasing discomfort.
Alfred Hagen boarded the Titan with one of the currently missing passengers. He described the trip as follows.
During the trip, Hagen’s fellow French explorer Paul-Henry Narjolet found the situation chilling. He is the man known as “Mr. Hagen.” Thanks to his over 30 trips to the Titanic’s sinking site.
“He was just sitting on his nose looking out the porthole. His feet were frozen, numb and soaking wet,” Hagen told The Times. Hagen put on sheepskin-lined UGG boots and set out to dive. He intended to buy a pair for Nargiolette before the explorer returned to the Titanic this year.
Narjolet is one of five people missing since the Titan lost contact with the Canadian research vessel Polar Prince on Sunday less than two hours into its dive.
“The only thing I think about all the time is that I was going to give him some uggs but I just couldn’t do it and I’m torturing myself every day. He suffered less, maybe his feet were warm I could have just died,” Hagen said. He called it a “recurring nightmarish feeling”.
Still, Hagen said time was running out, as the crew of the submarine Titan had run out of 96 hours of oxygen, but the missing Titan submersible Nargiolet and his crew could still be saved. He said he hopes there will be.
A Canadian aircraft with sonar capabilities detected underwater noise near a dive point on Tuesday night.
Titan is designed and operated by Oceangate Expeditions, which offers commercial trips to Titanic for about $250,000.
A CBS News correspondent who traveled aboard the Titan called it “jerry equipmentHagen had a more positive view of the operation due to the use of video game controllers among other “improvised” modifications. He said Oceangate’s efforts are experimental and just the innovation needed to move the technology forward. He called Oceangate’s chief executive, Stockton Rush, the pilot of the missing submersible, a “visionary inventor.”
He also said everyone on his voyage understood the risks.
“We all did it at great risk. We all signed multiple documents. They all said this was an experimental ship. Any regulatory process. No. We are aware of the possibility of serious injury or death,” Hagen said. “Frank conversations were held … Participation in this effort could have fatal consequences. It has been expressed many times.”
Hagen, president of a construction development company, said the trip was a “valuable” experience in his life.
Hagen shared a video with The Times that showed rusty wreckage on the bow of the Titanic, taken from the Titan’s porthole. Submarine passengers looked out and talked and joked.
Hagen said the ship lost contact with its mothership multiple times during visits to the wreck site, about 13,000 feet below sea level. The submarine communicates with the ship via computer-transmitted text her messages.
“We’ve certainly lost that ability, but it’s not uncommon,” he said. “Vessels are often lost from their mother ships. It simply means they have lost contact. Sometimes I didn’t even know.”
He spent 14 hours in a submarine on one trip.
“I can’t even imagine being there for the number of days they were there,” he said.
Hagen said he has no regrets about what happened last year and the year before.
“I wanted to see the Titanic. It was a dream and an amazing experience.”
