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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Bevan Hurley

This explorer dived to the ocean’s deepest seabed. He says the missing Titanic sub disaster was ‘avoidable’

Mike Moore / EYOS

A US deep sea explorer who is among the handful of adventurers to travel to the deepest point on Earth says he would not have set foot in the missing submersible vessel that vanished on its way to the site of the Titanic shipwreck.

Kelly Walsh, 55, told The Independent the disappearance of the Titan less than two hours into a 4,000m dive in the Atlantic Ocean on Sunday was “truly sad and avoidable”.

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