This is what the tourist dives to the Titanic were like with the damaged submersible

The Mexican YouTuber and actor Alan Estrada Gutiérrez, known for his travel channel "Alan por el mundo", last year became one of the first to descend onthe Titan submersible to see the remains of the Titanic and upon his return he said thatThere were still many security aspects that the company had to polish.

Estrada joined the Titan expedition in July 2021, along with three other passengers and the pilot Stockton Rush - president of OceanGate - after getting sponsors from his channel to finance the $125,000 it cost at the time.It was a failed first trip, since due to technical problems they had to return to the surface before being able to see the remains of the Titanic.

A year later, Estrada set sail with another crew and passengers, this time successfully. He managed to stand in front of the wreckage of the Titanic for just over an hour and documented the impressive experience for hisYouTube channel.

In thefourth part of your video about the experience, published 11 months ago -but viral now- Estrada advised future travelers to wait a bit for the company to iron out certain problems before undertaking a trip of this nature.

"Beyond what was truly incredible, it was the opportunity to do something that very few people have done and that was impressive. Now, is it worth it? In the end, an expedition that costs so much money and costs twice as much, for that price and being objective,You will have to wait a little for it to be worth what you are paying"he said then.

"At times it seems like they don't share the information with you or you feel abandoned in the hotel. There are many things that the company has to polish"added Estrada, who pointed out thatOceanGate It was a very young company.

The YouTuber said that for someone who pays a quarter of a million dollars to see the Titanic, the most important thing is how long you stay down, and added thatThe deadlines calculated by the company were not very tight at the moment.

Although the trip was divided into two hours to descend almost 4,000 meters, up to four hours in the depths of the ocean to first find the Titanic and then explore it, and another two hours to get afloat, Estrada noted that such deadlines were not met and cited that the expedition following his could only spend 40 minutes in front of the Titanic.

Other recent testimonies from travelers who made the trip suggest that security was not the company's strong point either.

Regarding the experience of the immersion itself, in several interviews given in recent days, Alan Estrada explained that at first it was as if you were launched from a rocket. SaidThe trip itself was not very special because it felt a bit claustrophobic to be in a capsule in which there is hardly any room to move, with a length of 2.8 meters wide by 2.5 meters high and 6.7 meters deep.

Estrada has explained that They were made to sign a document before boarding in which they were responsible for the dangers involved in taking a trip on an experimental ship., but then it seemed to him something similar to when you take a plane, where you know there is a risk but you think it can never happen to you.

He confirmed that the passengers were allowed the experience of piloting the submersible themselves, something that, as has been said in recent days, was done witha device similar to a wireless video game controller.

The first manned dive was made on December 10, 2018, 12 miles east of Little Harbour, on Great Abaco Island, to evaluate the integrity of the submarine. Four years later the company began to market this type of tourism. Alan Estrada was one of the first to try this experience and document it for his YouTube channel.

This Thursday, United States authorities confirmed that the five men who were aboard the submarine Tita, which disappeared last Sunday while descending to the wreck of the Titanic,died after the ship suffered a"catastrophic implosion."