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The OceanGate co-founder has again hit out at Titanic CEO James Cameron, claiming he “knows nothing” about the company and its underwater program.
Cameron “is a very experienced ocean explorer and a submariner himself, but he doesn’t know anything about OceanGate and things like that,” said Argentinian-American businessman Guillermo Seanlein, 58. told Insider.
Cameron, 68, who has completed more than 30 scuba dives on the wreck of the Titanic, has criticized OceanGate and the lack of safety procedures for the Titan submarine, which went missing on June 18, exploding and killing all five crew members.
“All the media coverage of how unsafe it was is based on David Lochridge, Will Cohen of the Marine Technology Society, Jim Cameron who knows nothing about this sort of thing… and Carl Stanley. Four-person Senlein, who founded the company in 2009 together with Stockton Rush.
After the high-profile tragedy, it emerged that Will Kohnen, president of the Marine Technology Society, had sent Rush a warning letter detailing how he believed the CEO was misleading the public that the Titan met industry safety standards.

Argentinian-American entrepreneur Guillermo Seanlein, 58, founded OceanGate in 2009 with Stockton Rush, 61

Cameron, 68, who has completed more than 30 scuba dives on the Titanic wreck, has criticized OceanGate and the lack of safety procedures for the Titan submarine.

The submarine Titan is depicted descending. It was the only five-man submarine capable of reaching the Titanic and the only tourist submarine not independently certified safe

Lochridge was fired as OceanGate’s director of marine operations after raising concerns about the “lack of non-destructive testing of the Titan hull”.
Stanley, who knows diving, additionally spoke after the disaster, explaining that he had driven the Titan during a test trip in the Bahamas in 2019 and was concerned with its safety.
“Stockton designed a mousetrap for billionaires,” he declared. But Sönlein has remained loyal and dismissed the criticism as a “minority of voices”.
The company probably employed about 200 people and laid off dozens of people over the course of 15 years. And you only hear from 4 people,” he advised Insider.
“Common sense seems to dictate that this must be a vocal minority because there are many other people who do not speak up and disagree with these four,” he added.
He also defended Stockton’s commitment to using carbon fiber for submarine hulls, telling the publication: “There was only one leading expert in the world on using carbon fiber to go deep ocean, and now he’s gone.”
Rush died in the disaster along with British billionaire Hamish Harding, 58; French Titanic connoisseur Paul Henri Narjolet, 77; and British-Pakistani father and son Shahzada Dawood, 48, and Suleman Dawood, 19.

In 2012, James Cameron made a lucrative solo mission to Earth’s deepest known level, the Mariana Trench. He piloted the Deepsea Challenger (pictured), which was designed to dive to depths of more than 10,000 fathoms

Cameron in 2012 after a lucrative solo dive on the Deepsea Challenger to the deepest known level on Earth, the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean.

The image reveals Cameron’s 2012 mission to the deepest known level in the ocean

The titanium carbon fiber hull and its acrylic viewing window have been the subject of several warnings, with James Cameron calling them “potential points of failure” on the ship.

Cameron gave a series of interviews following news of the Titan’s demise, criticizing the “fundamentally flawed” carbon fiber body

Cameron, who is both a renowned deep-sea explorer and a well-known filmmaker, has previously stated that the Titan’s carbon fiber design was considered unsafe throughout the deep-sea analysis community.
Senlein previously dismissed Cameron’s views on Times Radio: “One of the things that Mr Cameron said is correct is that the deep-sea exploration community is very small.
‘We all know each other. I think we all generally respect each other.
“But as you would expect in this kind of society, there are completely different opinions about what to do – how to design submarines, how to build them, how to dive.
“But one thing that concerns me and all the other experts who have spoken is that none of us were involved in the design, engineering or even testing of the submarines.
“So it’s impossible for anyone to basically speculate from the surface.”
Senlein suggested that Cameron and others were wrong to call OceanGate reckless.
“I was involved in the early stages of the overall development program, during our forerunners on Titan.
“And I know from first-hand experience that we were very committed to safety, and risk mitigation was an important part of the company’s culture.”
However, Cameron has said the doomed Titan submarine had several “potential failure points” and a warning system may have alerted the five crew members who died shortly before the vessel exploded.
Cameron pointed out that the Titan has “three potential points of failure” and pointed out that its “Achilles heel” is the carbon fiber cylinder.
He added that after Titan’s explosion, the hull had broken into “very small pieces” as the hull broke from the strain.
He added that the warning system may have issued a warning and the crew tried to take off sooner than the crash.