The co-founder of OceanGate has said regulations around Titanic wreck dives are “sparse” and “antiquated”.<br /><br />Five people, including the company’s CEO Stockton Rush, died on the Titan submersible after it went missing on Sunday 18 June.<br /><br />Asked if there is much regulation of submersibles and people’s ability to dive around the wreck, Mr Söhnlein - who left OceanGate in 2019 - suggested it’s “tricky” to navigate regulatory schemes.<br /><br />“There are regulations in place. But as you can imagine, there aren’t that many subs that go that deep. And so the regulations are pretty sparse,” he told Times Radio.<br /><br />“And many of them are antiquated, or they’re designed for specific instances. So, so it’s kind of tricky to navigate those regulatory schemes.”
