Where is this info that they waited eight hours to report it coming from?
The post I saw yesterday said contact was lost after ca 1.45hrs, and Coast Guard was contacted two hours after that. Which is too long imo, but not eight hours.
The to-and-back trip would have taken ca eight hours, was the times mixed up?
Looking for a proper link not sleaze media link. ty
OceanGate Expeditions, which operates the
missing Titanic tourist submersible, waited eight hours before reporting that the vessel had disappeared.
The private company, which provides tours of the Titanic wreckage site for a stunning $250,000 a person, did not report that the Titan submersible was missing until 5:40 p.m. Sunday,
the Daily Mail reported.
OceanGate’s Titanic-bound submersible went missing on Sunday with five passengers killed in a ‘catastrophic implosion,’ according to the US Coast Guard. Follow the Post’s live updates.
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An adviser for OceanGate Expeditions blamed government bureaucracy for allegedly slowing down the rescue effort for
the missing Titanic tourist submarine— but authorities claimed the company waited eight hours before reporting the disappearance.
Attorney David Concannon, who pulled out of Sunday’s dive at the last minute, told
NewsNation that the equipment and crew needed to rescue
the five missing passengers cannot be deployed until the Coast Guard authorizes the mission.
“They are mobilized. They’re sitting on the tarmac, ready to go,” Concannon said of the crew who surveyed the Titanic last year. “This equipment has been on the tarmac for hours.
“When I communicate with the US government, I get ‘out of office’ replies, not from everyone, but from key people that have a signoff on this,” he added. “That’s unacceptable. I don’t want to discourage the government officials that are helping because they’re doing their jobs, but we need to do it quicker.”
An adviser for OceanGate Expeditions blamed government bureaucracy for allegedly slowing down the rescue effort for the missing Titanic tourist submersible — but authorities claimed the compa…
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