A British man who was meant to join billionaire Hamish Harding on the missing Titanic submersible said he pulled out after being "less than convinced" by the vessel.
Chris Brown, 61, paid the deposit to join fellow Brit Hamish, 58, on the vessel, but was unsettled by the pilot controls which were "based on computer game-style controllers" and the quality of the technology and materials of the single windowed 22ft sub.
OceanGate Expeditions, which owns and operates the vessel, was taking five people, including company CEO Stockton Rush, French submersible pilot Paul-Henry Nargeolet and Harding, to the wreckage of the Titanic. British-based Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood, 48, and his son Sulaiman Dawood, 19, were also onboard.
