“I had the unique opportunity to dive in the #Titan sub with Stockton at the helm in preparation for its maiden mission to Titanic,” Gates wrote in a Wednesday tweet, as the multi-national search for the five men in the company’s submersible entered its fourth day. Gates said Titan “did not perform well” on the dive he went on, and that he had “safety concerns with the OceanGate platform,” adding, “There’s more to the history and design of Titan that has not been made public.” The Discovery Plus show Expedition Unknown previously canceled an OceanGate trip over the Titan submersible’s performance and “safety concerns.”Įxpedition Unknown host Josh Gates revealed that he had considered featuring the Titanic wreckage on his docuseries, but ultimately decided not to after trying out OceanGate’s Titan submersible.
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