Previous Passenger on Doomed Submersible Says Titanic Adventure Tourism at an End

Previous Passenger on Doomed Submersible Says Titanic Adventure Tourism at an End
A submersible vessel named Titan used to visit the wreckage site of the Titanic. OceanGate Expeditions via AP
The Canadian Press
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A German man who was among the first customers to successfully descend to the Titanic wreck aboard a submersible destroyed in an implosion one week ago believes the tragedy will put an end to adventure tourism at the site for the foreseeable future.

Arthur Loibl made the journey on Titan in 2021 with the submersible company’s CEO Stockton Rush and French Titanic expert Paul-Henri Nargeolet. Both men were among the five people who perished in the catastrophic incident that prompted a frantic international search in a remote area of the North Atlantic for most of last week.