An underwater filmmaker who journeyed to the depths of the ocean in 2021 on the now-missing submersible Titan — relying on regular communications for guidance — has described how “terrifying” it would be on the tiny vehicle where “you are really alone down there.”
David Waud, of Chicago, realised a long-term dream when, after decades of underwater filmmaking and photography, he joined the OceanGate expedition alongside its CEO and fellow Princeton alum Stockton Rush — one of the five Titan crew members currently unaccounted for. Communications with the submersible were lost less than two hours after it began its dive on Sunday, and international search and rescue teams are fighting the clock to find it before the crew’s oxygen runs out.
