Ross Kemp ‘Ditched Plan To Movie Dive To Titanic In OceanGate Sub’ – Deadline

A British TV presenter has revealed that, like Discovery+ explorer Josh Gates, he thought-about making a present during which he travelled to the wreck of the Titanic in an OceanGate sub – earlier than rejecting the plan as “unsafe.”

The Solar stories that Ross Kemp – a veteran of daredevil documentary-making during the last twenty years – had deliberate to make the present final summer season, earlier than pulling out. 

His agent Jonathan Shalit advised the paper: 

“Their workforce checked out this OceanGate submersible and pulled out of utilizing it, because it was merely not thought-about protected or match for goal.”

The Solar quoted a TV insider who added: “When provisional enquiries had been made with OceanGate, the query was requested: ‘How a lot coaching does he must go down within the submersible to the Titanic?’ And the reply was: ‘None in any respect.’

“The corporate was checked out initially as a result of they had been a widely known organisation, however after [production company] Atlantic began asking questions, any plans shortly unravelled.”

Josh Gates stated yesterday that he had rejected the possibility to movie on Titan, after security checks “didn’t carry out nicely.”

This follows the tragic information this week that 5 males, three of whom had been British,  had died aboard the mini-sub Titan, with specialists saying the course of the accident to be a “catastrophic implosion.” Particles of the shattered capsule has been discovered.