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Editorial his edition of Marine Technology Reporter starts © Nicolas Winkler Photography www.marinetechnologynews.com and ends with the loss of the OceanGate submers-

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Theadlines for the better part of two weeks. It started with the news that the vehicle and its occupants were off-grid during a dive on Titanic – arguably the world’s most famous

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John C. O’Malley shipwreck – followed by the frantic search by international [email protected] teams, the con? rmation of loss and then the immediate after-

President & COO math analysis.

Gregory R. Trauthwein

While I did not know any of the central players personally, this one is personal, as the [email protected] international subsea exploration community is a relatively small, tight-knit group; truly

Contributing Writers unlike anything I’ve ever seen across the maritime, offshore energy, ports and logistics

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Celia Konowe markets we serve.

Edward Lundquist

At this very early stage, opinions on the loss span the full spectrum, fueled mainly by

David Strachan the fame of the shipwreck itself with the cumulative net worth of the submersible’s mis- sion specialist passengers a close second. The events that led to the loss will be analyzed

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Irina Vasilets closely for years, and undoubtedly the result will be a new set of rules that helps to dictate [email protected] how subsea exploration is conducted, particularly the exploration/tourism branch.

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Deep under the water where nature, science and engineering meet, there are no guaran-

Nicole Ventimiglia tees. As I’ve written hundreds of times in my 30+ year career, it is “one of the most inhos- [email protected] pitable and unforgiving environments on the planet,” which was proven again last month

Corporate Staff with loss of Titan, captain and crew.

But explorers explore, and what cannot be lost is that the vast majority of subsea mis-

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Mark O’Malley sions that go off without a hitch, missions that are instrumental in helping us to explore, [email protected] analyze, understand and preserve earths most dominant and complex feature, its oceans

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