David Lochridge, OceanGate’s former director of operations, testified of unsafe practices, saying, ‘There was very little in the way of science’

Another mission specialist who worked with the company that owned the Titan submersible that imploded last year while on its way to the Titanic wreckage is testifying before a U.S. Coast Guard investigatory panel Friday.

Friday’s Titan Marine Board of Investigation public hearing will feature a newly added witness, according to a late-night post from the Coast Guard. For day four, Former OceanGate Mission Specialist Fred Hagen,

A mission specialist for the company that owned the Titan submersible that imploded in 2023 is scheduled to testify before the U.S. Coast Guard on Thursday. Renata Rojas is the latest person to testify who is connected to Titan owner OceanGate after an investigatory panel has listened to two days of testimony that raised questions about the company's operations before the doomed mission.

OceanGate co-founder Stockton Rush was among five people who died when the submersible imploded en route to the site of the Titanic wreck in June 2023. Rojas' testimony began with a different tone than some of the earlier witnesses,