‘Expedition Unknown’ host passed on Titan sub trip over safety concerns | CUOMO 

Sad for the families, glad for Josh Gates. So glad your intuition told you 'this isn't for me'. ❣

Josh made a simple, but insightful, risk calculation: that the risk _was incalculable_ . Although he didn't say it explicitly, one can imply that Josh figured that the risk _could_ be too great. Good call.

Like he said, it could be pressure cycle fatigue. The comet airliner in the 1950s broke up in the sky. 7 broke up and they finally did cycle pressure tests and determined they all broke up from metal fatigue from the pressure cycles. All these submarines should be tested in the same way.

Thank God he didn’t go God is with you Josh keep listening to him And God bless you always

There are risks in everything, but when you sign on to do an excursion with a company you expect that that company has done everything they can to ensure passenger safety. You expect the company to get outside inspections, you expect them to get all the certifications and classifications they need, and to run numerous tests. You expect a company to be completely transparent about those tests and inspections. It doesn't sound like Oceangate did any of this. It was never registered as a commercial submersible which prevented it from having to meet certain regulations. Risk? Yes, but this goes beyond normal risk.

I'm very sorry for this unfortunate incident and sadden for the family of these passengers. Josh, I'm glad you're still with us my friend, your series is my favorite weekly hour.

❤ love Josh Gates

I don't think the Titanic had great personal meaning for the19 year old or his father, or Stockton Rush, for that matter, or Hamish Hardy. Would you want to fly on an experimental airplane that hadn't been certified by any agency to get to a tourist destination?

If josh was not committed to going to titanic !! That says something !! He has done a lot of crazy stuff in his career

wow did that guy dodge a bullet at least someone had a clue more than a few someone's but not enough

Josh is the man!! His shows are great!

Excellent interview. Really good research. Thank you, Chris Cuomo.

I’m glad Josh Gates recognize how risky it would have been to be on board the ill fated Titan submersible in any extreme deep sea dive due to its likely and apparent inability to hold up against the extreme pressure of the deep sea. I like Josh Gates shows Expedition Unknown and Expedition X. Josh Gates might be seen as an extremist or risk taker but he always seems to acknowledge and appreciate the risks and dangers of any expedition he takes to dangerous environments he visits. He is right in saying exploration will go on and the Titanic will continue to fascinate people. He is right in saying that the lesson and mistakes of the Titan submersible tragedy must be learned from and the safety of human life must be the most important thing despite any and all risks that come with exploring dangerous and or hostile environments.

Josh Gate 🙏🏻God bless

Not one thing unreasonable or out of line with his perspective too many unknowns that could have should have been remedied first. This disaster had a better chance of never happening then.

What he said reminded me of why there are people who didn't want the vax

Amazing how many assumptions are being made with absolutely no clue or evidence. Sad. Josh Gates seems cool tho'

He said it about as good as you can, respect

Can't stand Cuomo, but I love me some josh gates!! He put it perfectly

I'm so very glad he did, finally able to watch the show legally in Australia , really enjoy the show

At lease, they can’t say Josh is crazy! I think Josh has the right to pick and choose is missions! Love you Josh!!!

Smart call Josh. Gotta be there for your family as well. Air pressure and temperature are different from water pressure and temperature.

My condolences to the family and friends of the 44 Argentine Sailors killed on sub ARA San Juan. 🇦🇷 In 2017 you barely made the news. 😑

LovevJosh Wilson!!!!!!

Remote control that Sub on many dives to work out the flaws before a Human rides that gauntlet of extreme pressures and temperatures

Bravery and determination doesn't always mean adventure. Stupidity like Stockton Rush also happens.

It could have been down without a crew for test run. Skipped some important safety steps.

Why is Chris on this channel? Didn’t he get fired from CNN???

Passed on this video as soon as I saw Cuomo's deceitful mug

It's kinda like how many licks does it take to get to the center of a Tootsie pop!

Cumo is on News Nation.... yikes... I'd rethink that idea

Smart man

It may not be my place to say, but isn’t it in poor taste to use Titanic as a tourist attraction? I understand studying it, but Titanic was a tragic moment in history where so many people died.

Good for you Josh! No since in possible death! That thing is not safe!

😇⚜️😇🦅✝️-Amen!

They keep saying that going down there shows a lot of courage…I would go down there cuz I don’t give a fuck

Yes seriously I would love to see titanic..but I'm going to go on those hardcore Russian machines..top of the line

Just glad you refused

Whew!

Not that we as viewers don't love the idea of finding monsters and ghosts in places where even small ticks can paralyze for weeks, it isn't however productive to show the four frinded party being sucked out of the window of a third world country byplane while looking for haroin smugglers who the natives call "the Thing" 🙂 please be careful and have safe travels 🙂

My heart breaks for the families and friends of these poor souls. With regards to Cuomo, I wish he would stay off RU-vid…and any other media platform. The families and viewers deserve a more respectable person to speak of this tragedy.

... the Cu Omo Brothers crashed the flight of Icarus successfully... they both KNOW - the Arro Gance to feel invincible... Those Icaruses breed themselves

if you go to sea you learn to be superstitious! the sub is called the "titan" going down looking at the "titanic" a ship that famously sank in an almost prophetic realisation of a book written years earlier about a ship sinking called the "titan", sorry but even without being superstitious i would not have been going down in that sub.

Bravery means nothing if it's paired with stupidity. Stupidity usually trumps bravery, and this situation is just another example of that. The fact is, the people who engineered this sub didn't do their homework. They could have tested unmanned versions of this sub repeatedly to get more data for a better design. They could have also plumbed the depths (no pun intended) of the U.S. Navy's expertise on these types of submersibles, thus using available (and probably hard earned) data to improve their designs. Once they worked their way through several iterations of this tech, they could have then provided a much better level of safety for their endeavors. They should have done it the way Elon Musk and Space X do it: Create rapid interations of new tech and test, test, test, until you get it right. THEN you put people on board! Safety still isn't guaranteed, but it's a much better bet - a risk worth taking as it were.

Dude never really finds anything on the show.....

Why does he look like a cartoon?

Meanwhile at exactly the same time three boats full of refugees went down they knew where they were and nobody lifted a finger to help I guess there weren't any millionaires on board.

Why are so many whales dying ?

The line that was crossed was taking passengers (even despite signed waivers) before adequate testing.

"You couldn't even assess the risk." Ugh! Strong words!

I really liked what Josh said and he seemed more knowledgeable about the mechanics of it, than I was expecting.

My man said "this is not for me" after first hand experience with the Harbor Freight submersible. I would say he made the right call.

Josh Gates is right. This terrible tragedy needs to be investigated to find out what happened and how to prevent such horrible things from happening in the future.

CEO should've hired those "50-year old white guys" with good resumes instead of the "young, inspiring" and "diverse" recruits that had no clue what they were doing.

I’m glad Josh didn’t get on that Death Tube ran by a controller from $5 & Below!

This man is an absolute legend.. My heart goes out to the entire families of the five Victims .. Very sad 😢💔🕊🕊🕊🕊🕊

I know he must feel like the luckiest man in the world right now that he passed on that trip. Just like the people who missed making it onto the Titanic itself. Or getting on one of the hijacked planes on 9/11.

As tragic as this is, this is why you need to not skip on safety being prioritised.

Huge risks certainly but not in an uncertified craft in the Atlantic Ocean. RIP. Unforgettable.

Some risk is definitely required but a $50 Xbox console to drive the sub is something else. All these rich people taking rides down to the Titanic so where is there money going? It's definitely not towards safety Hopefully this catastrophe will put an end to this billionaire circus ride trip to the Titanic. Let the ship rest in peace. Go find something else to spend your money on.

This man is talking with common sense may be not today but we need to ask some serious question about the ocean gate sub. Putting people lives at risk is a topic for serious convesation. My condolences goes out to the families of these men

My coworker and I were just so upset today when we found out that they found the debris she came over from her department and told me and I had been praying so hard and when I woke up this morning and found out they hadn't found them yet I was just devastated you have to have a heart and care about people on this planet even if they are strangers I certainly wouldn't want to be in that situation and I would probably have a breakdown if it were one of my family members

Imagine how the people who’ve been down there feel knowing that could’ve been them… Very lucky

Thank God he didn’t go! And I heard another guy didn’t go b/c he had last minute business he had to attend to. Praise the Lord 🙌🏻🙌🏻 Love and prayers for the families and friends of these men 🙏🏼🙏🏼💙💙

I don’t care for como…

Isn't this what innovator's do, absolutely but they don't charge people $250,000 under a false pretense its safe and risk their lives.

I love you Josh. My condolences to the Titan families.

The only thing known for sure about this accident is that everyone will be suing everyone over it for the next century.

I don't blame Josh Gates 1 little bit for not going again into that doomed submersible. His gut instinct kicked into high gear & screamed at him to not go......good thing he listened to it.

Cuomo T.V. shows are just wonderful I never missed any of them who never know who will be on or what you will see people keep up the excellent work 💯👍

A shocking deal of foolishness seems to have been involved. Grief over the deceased should not stop us from pointing to the numerous ways in which safety was disregarded. The only person where one can try to find some degree of rationality, for him to risk his life so unreasonably, is the French guide. He was a retired submariner, an old man with a fixation over Titanic who happened to be very well paid to dive. So well paid, I guess, he was thinking about his children and grandchildren at least as much as about Titanic. He lost his life as a richer old man than many other French navy officers, probably (though others aren't bad either, at finding extra revenue sources).

That material should have been tested more before doing manned missions.

No, carbon fiber under compression is not strong. it's just epoxy.

You can begrudge these fools because they caused Coastguard and navy rescue crews to risk their lives. Next narcissist CEO determined to murder people should sign an agreement that no one will going looking for them when their recklessness kills.

Josh's necklace was speaking to him.

I don't think you should be taking tourists in an experimental sub for profit. its one thing to put yourself in danger but it is another to put an put someone who does not really have enough knowledge to consent to the danger. I doubt the passengers were engineers with the understanding of lack of research on carbon fiber and external pressure.

I don’t care what anyone says, this dude was a Ponzi scheme on steroids, he made all the passengers feel safe and honestly sent them to there grave with no concern other than them signing a waiver I’m sure that will make him unaccountable in any court. This is sad and they had confidence in this guy and he took advantage of them.

Wow good thing because he would be "kaput"!

The Titanic was the first of its kind too 🤔

I believe not only the hull is a cylinder like a soda can. It’s harder to crunch a can on it’s ends without a crease. But easy on it’s wide part with no problem. An egg is almost a sphere in shape had its very hard to break just by squeezing. The cylinder can design was its fatal flaw.

Josh Gates is my all-time favorite host. A real Indiana Jones! Josh has some brass ones and I have seen him do dome things that are just bonkers. For him to back out says a lot about those internal feelings that just tell you NO, DONT GO. Very sad indeed. Especially the kid that didn't want to go in the first place.

This dude is now living Final Destination 6 😬

So so happy Josh didn’t go…..love him to bits….

Its either over use it definitely wasn't engineered correctly...or it was a plot to kill them off. Prior to the descend perhaps the craft was tampered with. Was it the son or a mistress disgruntled employee...must investigate all angles. The son seems suspect.

In this day in time a sub like this could be operated remotely for its first dives and then do checks on the integrity of the carbon fiber. They could have done 3-4-5 maybe ten dives to the titanic via remote control before putting a single person inside of it.

lol, dude was not "innovative".... he tried to reinvent the wheel....

Smart man.

smart man.

Good for you Josh.❤

There's data now.... testing a new idea with passengers (even if you call them "mission specialists") is just careless!!!.... Did they even know they were part of testing the new craft??? 😳 I strongly doubt any of them actually knew the risk they were taking..... Stockton may have been carelessly arrogant, but, he wouldn't have deliberately risked his own life.... he actually believed he knew better... 😔💔💔💔💔💔

This submersible seems to be the ultimate design that will deny the carbon fibre body to be put in its position of ultimate strength.. tension. And at the same time to exploit its ultimate weakness.. compression, of which it has little strength. Likely shattered

I love Josh Gates

R I P to all. wow is it why these people are called explorers. I couldn't imagine being squashed into this submersible even on land let alone way under the sea bed. condolences from across the pond

This is so sad

Passengers who are not experts in building subs would expect the company to have the proper certifications, and design. This wasn't about the unknown like getting tangled stuck on the bottom. That is what people thought when they signed that waiver. People don't expect the pressure hull to fail.

I seen where someone said that this sub was only rated to go down to 1,300ft not 3,000ft.

Always admired Josh Gates for his adventurous expeditions. I suspected he always weighed the risks and used common sense and scientific data before committing to risky endeavors. Keep up the good work, Josh. You’re much appreciated.

Close one there Josh , I'm glad to hear that somehow your better judgement kept you safe ! I've followed your Shows whenever I was able always enjoyed it ! Thanks and Stay Safe 🌎🌍

So glad you didn't go god bless the ones who passed ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Such a phony show..they never find anything....DFIP