Al Giddings, who has made 17 trips to the shipwreck site, said the submersible must have bent like a tin can under the oceanic pressure.
When famed underwater photographer Al Giddings heard an expedition submersible went missing this week on a deep sea dive to the Titanic shipwreck, he groaned.Giddings, a San Rafael resident, has made 17 dives aboard a Russian submersible to the Titanic, eight for a CBS special with Walter Cronkite and nine with James Cameron for the blockbuster 1997 film.
The Titan occupants were OceanGate chief executive and Titan pilot Stockton Rush; Pakistan residents Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman Dawood; explorer Hamish Harding; and one the world’s foremost Titanic experts, Paul-Henri Nargeolet. The pressure on the sub would have been around 6,000 pounds per square inch. Giddings likened the implosion to an instant jackknife at the center of a cylindrical soda can.Despite the tragedy, Giddings speaks of the Titanic and his illustrious career with a sense of reverence. Titanic “is like the Holy Grail” for explorers, adventurers, history buffs, he said.
Giddings logged more than 360 hours at the site, recording video of “anything and everything” he could find. Most of the dives were in the 1990s.
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