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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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John Dunne

Titan engineer felt 'under pressure' to get doomed submersible out to sea

The lead engineer on the submersible Titan which imploded as it dived on a mission to view the Titanic has told an iniquiry he felt “under pressure” to get the experimental vessel in the water.

British adventurer Hamish Harding and father and son Shahzada and Suleman Dawood were killed on board the Titan deep-sea vessel in June last year, alongside French national Paul-Henri Nargeolet.

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