Titanic visitor Renata Rojas asked the panel investigating the loss of OceanGate's Titan sub and its crew to safeguard citizen science.

OceanGate’s former scientific director said that the Titan submersible’s platform malfunctioned just days before its fatal voyage, leaving one crew member hanging upside-down.Dr Steven Ross testified that he,

The scientific director for the company that owned the Titan submersible that imploded last year while on its way to the Titanic wreckage testified that the sub had malfunctioned just prior to the fatal dive.