{"id":55994,"date":"2024-09-17T16:41:55","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T06:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=55994"},"modified":"2024-09-17T16:41:55","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T06:41:55","slug":"us-coast-guard-starts-hearing-into-failings-of-titan-submersible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=55994","title":{"rendered":"US Coast Guard starts hearing into failings of Titan submersible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The US Coast Guard on Monday began a hearing over the implosion of the privately owned Titan submersible that killed five people on a journey to the Titanic last year.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The two-week hearing into the catastrophe will feature evidence as to what went wrong and whether physical or design failure contributed to the accident, which garnered worldwide attention.<\/p>\n<p>Tony Nissen, a former engineering director at US-based OceanGate, the company which operated the submersible, testified Monday that he had been concerned by safety issues during his tenure, according to US media.<\/p>\n<p>Nissen told the hearing, which is being held in South Carolina, that he had refused to sign off on a 2019 dive to the wreckage of the Titanic due to concerns over the Titan&#8217;s hull. He was fired later that year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Coast Guard on Monday began a hearing over the implosion of the privately owned Titan submersible that killed five people on a journey to the Titanic last year. The two-week hearing into the catastrophe will feature evidence as to what went wrong and whether physical or design failure contributed to the accident, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2284],"class_list":["post-55994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-us-coast-guard-starts-hearing-into-failings-of-titan-submersible"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}