Deborah shared…

I’m so sorry for their loss. I studied the Titanic in college and my dream job would have been to research it. There’s something about how beautiful that ship was, the domed staircase, the beautiful ballrooms, the hope for a better future it brought so many people. And the unfortunate sinking that resulted in so much loss of life. I never had the privilege of meeting PH but we lost a great person and hopefully he documented everything he knew. Some don’t understand why people research the Titanic, why they want to go 12,000 feet below, why they want to salvage items from the Titanic. But I say to forget history is to repeat it, this keeps their memories alive so that no other maritime ship suffers so many casualties. I also would like to offer my condolences to the victims as well. I hope this leads to better safety measures. I think there should be extensive testing on titanium and carbon fiber hulls. I don’t understand why they didn’t make both and repeatedly test them by dropping them 12,000 feet and bringing the back up like 200 times unmanned and test the hull each time. I don’t understand why someone didn’t do this. So we have a sense of when hulls start to fail. It’s possible even a Titanium hull might start to fail over time as well at that pressure. Also the cold water might make failure more likely. There is so much unexplored in our oceans but we want explorers to be safe. Not just cross their fingers when they dive down. I think the best way to honor PH is to research these different materials. I think Stockton Rush THOUGHT he knew what he was doing, but I think repeated dives are away at the integrity of the hull. So we need to research this so we never have this happen again