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00:00 It's a tale of adventure and expedition at its peak gone terribly wrong.
00:05 As the search for the missing Titan continues, the company that launched the submersible
00:10 Ocean Gate Expeditions is facing mounting criticism.
00:14 This video of American reporter David Pogue expressing safety concerns about the vessel
00:19 six months ago has gone viral.
00:22 I got these from Camper World.
00:24 We run the whole thing with this game controller.
00:27 Come on!
00:29 I didn't know at that point that you drive the thing with an Xbox game controller.
00:34 I didn't know that the ballast was used construction pipes.
00:41 You get there and then you start seeing this stuff and now your mood crashes and you get
00:45 a little worried.
00:46 Like, is this the level of polish and sophistication we're talking about?
00:52 Meanwhile, it's been revealed that Ocean Gate fired an expert who warned about the submarine
00:57 safety back in 2018.
00:59 In a court filing, David Lockridge cited the company's experimental and untested design
01:04 of the Titan.
01:06 He was especially concerned that the sub was not capable of descending to such extreme
01:10 depths.
01:11 Separately, a group of experts wrote this letter to Ocean Gate in 2018, urging the company
01:17 to get the vessel checked by an independent third party.
01:20 But these calls were all ignored.
01:23 Ocean Gate has made two previous trips to the Titanic site and said in May that it always
01:28 expects new challenges with each trip.
01:32 The latest mission began its descent to the Titanic wreck on Sunday.
01:36 But less than two hours later, contact was lost.
01:40 US and Canadian teams have since been scrambling to find the missing vessel and its five passengers.