Millions and millions of dollars spent to find (not rescue) these poor people. No one would put a cost on the possibility of saving them, no matter how remote. Yet those millions could feed, house, provide college educations, etc. etc. "Regular" human problems are highly scrutinized as to whether they should be funded, whereas five risk takers are funded without hesitation. Sigh.

Thank you Katie for saying the obvious out loud! It is the Tax Payer’s who pick up the bill for such excursions by the$e Billionaire’s who signed a waiver and understood the risks! I believe we know the outcome and it’s bleak! RIP

You couldn't pay me 10 MILLION Dollars to get into that Death Tube!! NO WAY!!!

Hi Katie! I'm just a lowly business analyst however when I heard about this it was the most stupid thing I ever heard of in my life. The arrogance is astounding! It's almost like a really bad joke you know isn't going to end well. The lack of risk management and safety plan B plan C or something is appalling! If I was the mother of any one of them adult or not, I would have forbidden it. It makes me so mad!!

Greetings from Italy. 🇮🇹 Thank you Katie for bringing up the ethical conflict regarding the reactions to migrants dying at sea while risking it all for a chance at a better life vs. adventure seekers lost on an expensive voluntary trip - while we’re continually told there’s little money for saving migrant lives in the Mediterranean where thousands die each year vs. the interest in and high costs of the rescue efforts of this one submergible. Horrible to contemplate the loss of life at sea for anyone, rich or poor…but the different levels of interest, empathy, and resources are particularly striking this week. PS - Days of mourning, flags at half staff, etc. to honor the dead after yet another shipwreck is pretty much Europe’s version of the US’s “thoughts and prayers” after yet another mass shooting. In both cases, what we really need is effective, humane, and ethical policies. ☮️

I work in aviation maintenance and the fuselage of an aircraft has a life limit, ultimately due to the amount of cycles the tube goes through expansion and contraction. On that note, prior to the end of life, there are scheduled inspections with eddy current to check for cracks or weak points. If there is no analysis program or maintenance manual for these submersibles, this should be a new law.

Thank you, Katie and David Pogue. As usual to Katie's coverage, a variety of angles and perspectives. Each handled with journalistic grace and integrity.

Great interview! I was very glad to hear that virtually no one else is visiting the Titanic wreck; with Ocean Gate's future prospects all but dead, they're all but certainly forever out of that business. All the better. It's long past time to leave the Titanic be.

Hi Katie, thanks for having David to help explain more details on what he knows about this situation. It sounds so very grim right now. I just cannot imagine what the outcome is going to be unless there is an ultimate miracle at this point. I cannot imagine taking this type of risk whether I could afford it or not. This is very terribly tragic and sad for the five souls aboard and their families. 😢

I've heard David explain his experiences several times now and watched his piece from November, but I'm shocked that he hasn't become more skeptical of OceanGate's safety claims. OceanGate fired David Lochridge after he raised safety concerns to the CEO in 2018 and then the CEO sued him to try to keep him silent. There were supposedly 7 different failsafes for the Titan, but I'm not convinced the failsafes were even tested considering what came to the surface in the Lochridge lawsuit.

I hope this will be the line drawn and a clear message to leave the ship at peace.

I have no sympathy for anyone who engages in thrill seeking, dangerous pursuits. However, I DO have it for those who are expected to rescue these foolish people. Anyone who seeks their thrills via escapades that serve no purpose whatsoever, must then do so accepting that they may not survive, or be rescued.

For those dreaming of a better life or a roof or water, just one of those trips would have provided for many and been a great adventure in humanity.

Katie is such a clear thinker and great communicator.

How predictable? Predictable enough to make all people onboard sign waivers acknowledging that death is a possible result. Highly possible. The word "death" is mentioned 3 times on one single page of the waiver. If they didn't take it seriously, they made a fatal error. So sad. Eminently predictable.

I'd like there to be a discussion, article, documentary on why people take these enormous risks. Similar to Everest climbers. Is there something missing within ourselves that we need to go to extremes?

The fact that this submersible does not have an umbilical (for comms and emergency air supply) and emergency ballast release for rapid emergency surfacing indicates they were either negligent with regards to safety or that submersible is highly sophisticated. I think it is the former or they would be on the surface by now.

Thank you so much Katie for telling everybody what is really happening about this tragedy !

I’m my mind the Titanic is basically a burial ground. There is absolutely no need to go down there outside of scientific research, and even then technology is so far advanced people don’t need to go. Maybe this will help people learn to respect final resting places.

I don't know why this tragedy is reminding me of the Challenger disaster. The frozen O Rings. The decision to go ahead. The teacher. Surviving the explosion only to be plummeted deep into the ocean. No rescue. Horrible.

The waiver says it all. Death is mentioned 3 times. I am so sad and angry that this is even possible to do without being regulated. James Cameron thinks the people inside this contraption knew something was horrifically wrong and that must have been agonizing. I can't imagine taking someone so young on board. What a tragedy. This wasn't at all safe and I am so sad it could happen at all. Horrific. The rescue cost and time taken to search must be taken into consideration. I have huge concerns about these adrenalin junkies and I worry enormously when humans have to take huge risks to try and provide a rescue if something goes wrong. Thank you for the superb coverage and information Katie and David. It's mind blowing. This was horribly flawed in an ethical sense. You are both amazing!! 🙂

Thank you, Katie Couric, for this thoughtful interview and the questions you asked.

Before doing any potentially life-threatening activity, I always ask myself "If things go wrong, am I OK with dying in this manner?" If the answer is "No, because I don't want to be in terror before I die," then I don't do it. Hopefully the passengers did this same kind of soul searching before participating. This perspective occurred as a result of surviving an complete engine failure in a small military aircraft that had to land in a farmer's field.

Just a thought, there was some really big $ involved here. 23 dives at $1M ea approx. How money can pervert judgement. Also, the Titanic is a graveyard and I think there is something morally wrong with that as well.

So much money for stupid things. And this is stupid just for bragging rights. Brag about things that matter. Dig a well for people who walk miles to drink sewage.

I don’t want my taxes dollars saving fun seekers who are billionaires . The billionaires should leave a rescue fund of their money to save them if necessary

They were aware of the danger involved. They signed their lives away. If you're going to attempt to travel to the Titantic at the bottom of the ocean, at depths exceeding 13,000 feet(!), you had better have emergency protocols in place.

When Katie says there’s no price put on a human life, I would add a correction. No price put on a billionaire’s life, especially if it makes good television. This is great television. These are BILLIONAIRES. Their families could buy the whole Coast Guard. They should pay us back.

Yes, taxpayer dollars. Always it seems we are paying for things we don't sanction. Like WAR. Like tax breaks for rich people and corporations.

This truly is horrible. No one wishes this to happen. I hope we all learn from it.

Katie's the best, not obsessed sad for them and there family. Very good point Katie about the $ amt involved with rescue.

Thank you Katie - yes, I am obsessed with this story as you are. Also, thank you to your guest for the in-depth explanation, especially for people who are not savvy in this subject, to understand what's happening.

He's wrong about no one asking the question regarding the cost of this rescue operation. Stephanie Ruhle asked the question 3 hours ago on her show on MSNBC.

LOVE LOVE your show Katie. I'm as obsessed as you are about this story. It is indeed very different from an airplane. Jets always have many backup systems.

Katie, best interview I’ve seen about this. Thank you‼️

Case closed, the sub imploded at the 90 minute mark because that's when the status pinger stopped.

Thanks Katie Couric. Love your interviews.

I am wondering how the father of the 19 year old is feeling about the choice to put his son in this kind of danger. I am wondering how his wife feels right now. It’s bad enough she may lose her husband but also her son. Yeah he’s 19 and legally an adult, but anyone with a one in front of his age isn’t mature enough to really know what he’s choosing.

Bless Them All.

Always love your interviews Katie 👍🏼👍🏼

You pay for the 'full Titanic experience', you get the full Titanic experience.

Yes,I have been obsessed and very sad now that we know the outcome. Prayers to their families

Kudos to Dave, Katie, and CBS for providing this thought-provoking commentary.🤔

Great guest. THANKS!

There’s an irony in the visit to a submerged tomb that results in the death of the visitors.

THEY WERE WARNED 😢

Thank you for continuing with your beautiful inquiring mind❤

David Pogue said about the interview he conducted with Oceangate, "There's a thought in my head, in my rational brain that says they (Oceangate) wouldn't put us on this thing as journalists with a TV camera if there's a risk that's gonna make them look bad, if the whole thing is going to kill somebody." And this is why our brains are often not rational. We place too much trust in mankind although history shows we should never do that. The Space Shuttle Challenger blew up on live TV and we know NASA didn't have the intent for the rocket launch to fail in front of millions to see including children. But human error happened and one may argue that was a more calculated risk (testing rigors for the space shuttle). Be well and be at peace.

Probing questions and informative replies. Thank you both.

This is such a realistic stance. Very good points made about the logistics and costs, as well as the ethics.

The things that fascinate people today are beyond fathoming, the Titanic site is a graveyard of heartaches, who would want to relive this horrible event? You would put your life at risk to see that??? Very strange and unimaginable, what a waste of money, it shows where people's hearts are when this money could have gone to save many lives, the hunger and homelessness in the world, yet you care more about the dead than the living. May God have mercy on their souls, what a horrible way to die, there is still a bit of hope left!

All these public costs to try to find and rescue these people in the submersible should be paid by this company. Hope they are rescued but tax payers must be reimbursed. Geez.

I know how this can be avoided. Stop going down to the Titanic and stop making money off her tragedy. It is vile and disrespectful. It is a gravesite. Stop milking the Titanic for everything you can make off her. Let her RIP. No need to keep on disturbing her and the souls that lost their lives. I hope these five people won't be added to the Titanic's death count. Maybe after this it will deter people to want to go down, and she will get the rest she deserves.

This guy, like those on the lost submersible, believed the safety hype of OceanGate.

I remember walking around New York City, on solid ground, in open air, while the Kursk submarine disaster was unfolding.That was in summer, 2000, and in that instance, 118 crew members died in the course of botched rescue operations. I don't know how many were killed in the initial or subsequent explosions, or if some died slowly, but I remember it troubled my own breathing, each time I thought of what was occurring in real time. This is quite different in every way, except for the way in which it is the same: It is a vessel far below the ocean's surface, and unless it imploded or exploded and those inside it died instantly, we are here, imagining horrible circumstances. And, yes, I have thought about how many individuals drown, far outside of submersibles, trying to reach other countries, in order to find another way to live, or live, period. limitations when

You reflect our hearts Katie, thank you.

Great to see you again, used to watch you all the time back in the day. Hope I'm not making you feel old.

Hi Dave, THANK YOU😞

The working stiffs hard earned tax dollars once again subsidies the life style of the rich and famous. or the owners of that submersible have insurance or they are billed for the cost of the search and rescue mission. All for a joy ride! These types of people need to discover the joy of helping others, they have the ability and responsibility to make the world a better place.

Great informative video👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

Want them found but realized after thinking more on it, would mean they would have to live through absolute horror in order to be saved. So torn on how to feel. But I do know my heart goes out to dad who not only have his own fears and nightmares but enduring this with his son. And I do feel they are not sitting quietly but tempers might be all over the place, blame game using up more air on top of no space to move. Hoping for a miracle and if found hope it was nothing like the nightmare I am imagining. ❤🙏🏿

I’m obsessed about this crazy story too.

So many lessons to be learned from this.

Ironically titanic was the icon of new invention of travel, was even regulated to the standards of the time, and it resulted in a tragedy...when i heard they were making a replica, bigger titanic, to travel the same route as the original, I was like "uh hell no! Not for me" wouldnt even think of doing something like this 😳

What a monumental waste of money to get inside a tin can and plunge two miles into the abyss just to get a glimpse of a rusty old ship that sank over a century ago! WTAF? People are nuts!

I'm not obsessed but highly amused. Rich folks have too much have time on their hands.

Katie, Boeing denies helping with this sub, and they deny selling Oceangate anything. Rush ran around telling people that he got the carbon fiber from Boeing, and that appears to be untrue. The University of Washington helped Rush design his FIRST submersible, The Cyclops, but that was never designed to dive to the depths that the Titanic lays at, and the UW has not had anything to do with Titan or any other projects for Oceangate. NASA also gave advice to Oceangate for Cyclops, years ago, but Rush keeps referring to "partnerships" with these 3 entities in his marketing and in personal interactions with reporters and potential customers, even though these "partnerships" have long been over and had nothing to do with this vessel. You need to correct this or pull the video.

Crazy that we are funding this search for all the reasons discussed. These 5 souls knew the risks.

Best interview I've heard about this tragic event

They can send info to robotic subs that have previously visited the Titanic, but nothing similar to this mission. This is why regulations/oversight are needed.

Let's hope they make it home 😢

We needto get these boys out, no matter what!

The Universe is still undefeated

That whole endeavor seems to have been extremely reckless

Pogue should have done his job as a journalist and call out Rush on the lawsuits and other problems. He was more of an OceanGate PR rep than reporter.

August Piccard built a deep ocean vessel with a float filled with gasoline and travelled with his son into an ocean trench in the 1950s. This is what explorers are like! They travel to the North Pole in ships that are meant to freeze in the ice pack and drift over the pole. They climb the highest peaks in wool suits and dodge avalanches. They ascend in hot air or helium balloons. They jump out of the balloons and drift back to earth with parachutes. They SCUBA dive in caves. They don’t all survive. If people want to pay money to share in the adventure, they also share the risks. It’s sad that wool suits aren’t warm enough, or avalanches can’t always be dodged, that parachutes fail, that helium leaks, that ice crushes iron. It’s exhilarating when the explorers come back to us. I toast them all, the ill-fated and the fortunate.

The military submarines that the US have only go down 1,500 feet. What made them think they could safely go down to the depth of 12,000 feet?

Oceangate is going out of business, especially when they receive the bill from the US Coast Guard, the US Air Force, and the Canadian Armed Forces.

Using an old video game controller should've been the first clue to the passengers that this wasn't such a good idea. God, please be with all involved, and guide them safely to You. Whether it's going home to be with their families or going home to be with You, please show them strength, love, compassion, mercy and peace during their difficult and unpredictable journey ahead, amen.

Not sure how I feel about the danger tourism and if there should be limited $’s on rescue attempts. Should it come to a decision between many or a few I favor rescue the many.

This is predictable - the pressure of going up and down puts stress on the hull.

Praying for a miracle 🙏

Everything that we know about the oceans deep high pressure has informed us of the dangers to adventure into the bottom of the sea,like the shuttle all subs and planes and rockets have a limited life,this little submersible thing looks very improvised carbon fiber or not you don’t mess with the ocean,we hope they can be found but all the odds are against them and it is a very sad day for discovery adventures and the families of the five persons who are down there God knows where ,really sad !

If arrogant, narcissistic men choose to risk their lives on this kind of folly, so be it. But, to endanger a young nineteen year old's (RIP) life due to his father pressuring him into joining him on this doomed voyage is unconscionable, to say the least. Sadly, the only person I feel bad about is the child and his mother.

Why aren’t people regarding the remains of the Titanic as sacred. Humans lost their lives amongst this wreckage.

We cannot be sure that the implosion of the submarine was on Sunday when communication with the surface was lost, it could have been yesterday, that would explain why noises were heard every half hour, probably the crew members were alive and trying to communicate with the outside by sending that signal help, they knew their time was short. The same damage caused by the collision of the submarine with the bottom of the sea caused the implosion to occur over the hours after the dying crew had suffocated little by little in the complete darkness in the terrors of the depths of the oceans.

The hull was designed in part with NASA and Boeing. 2 companies that are known to make vehicles that travel ABOVE sea level. Awesome

I have a feeling that the sub imploded during the decent. The carbon fiber shell of the sub could have had an unseen crack and I don't think that the material should have ever been used, tragic.

Against All odds I'm praying that the outcome is blessed and they recover everyone alive 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

The Silicon Valley ethos of "Go Fast and Break Things" does not translate well when you go 13,000 feet underwater.

Rich people’s problems. They should have to pay for their own rescue, if indeed they are even rescued.

I wholeheartedly believe that this tragedy was even more predictable than the titanic sinking. Titanic was built by the most respected ocean liner engineers of the day. By previous standards of the day it was so overbuilt in it’s engineering, no other ship could stay afloat with the amount of bulkheads breached that Titanic was designed with. However, that put the captain and the crew into a false sense of security that made them more willing to take risks they otherwise wouldn’t. In contrast, Stockton Rush used untested materials and basically gave anyone who raised safety concerns about the subs construction the middle finger. Now we know the sub had a catastrophic implosion… Stockton Rush was a fool for ignoring the entire submersible community and their clear safety concerns of the sub.

"The indestructible pressure hull was built in collaboration with Boeing and NASA"... Watching this a few weeks after the tragedy the most important thing I learned that David Pogue is no investigative reporter. He parroted lines that Stockton fed him without doing fact checking or investigation.

Boeing and UW have said they had nothing to do w this thing’s design.

This could easily be called "a disaster waiting to happen!" From what I'm hearing, it was only a matter of time! What a terrible shame!!

Hi, Katie! This is so tragic! I can't imagine the horror that the crew members must be experiencing, and the anguish for the family members. This event gives one to ponder on the reliability of new experiental technology, especially when "Death" is very imminent. It's so sad for the members on board, but, especially for the 19 year old.

Skeptical story?!?!?!?!? He wasn't skeptical at all. He failed miserably as a journalist. He laughed at all of Rush's narcissistic "who needs rules and regulations" jokes, reinforcing his narcissism. If Pogue was doing his job he would have asked about the former employee who was let go, and any of the other dozen experts who saw this coming. Then you would have seen Stockton Rush's anger rise, like it does in all narcissists when you call out their BS. David Pogue is frankly lucky to be alive. He has no idea how close he came to death. As for the security theater that they did when he was there (the 3 strikes thing), how adherent to it do they stick when the cameras aren't on? Also, those 3 organizations that Rush claimed helped him design the carbon fiber cylinder came out and said that was bullshit. When he made those claims why didn't you ask for some citations and proof of that?

NARRATOR: Stockton Rush was NOT safety conscious. Indeed, he was reckless and arrogant. The window was made of plexiglass. The hull was made of carbon fiber that made the vessel unable to withstand pressure. They avoided regulations, certifications and safety protocols. AND yes David Pogue there is somebody to blame and that is Stockton Rush.

Thnk u katie for speaking true. But i hope they are found and alive. But the chances are so slim.katie aways ask the right questons .

Just to note that these submersibles aren’t a one off. Russia had built by Finland the Mir submersibles used by James Cameron.