Criminal charges possible in Titan submersible implosion: RCMP

Officials investigating the doomed Titanic submersible will examine voice recordings and other data from its mothership to try to determine what happened and whether any criminality occurred, according to reports. …

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Meanwhile, authorities are working to determine whether the case warrants a criminal investigation, Royal Canadian Mounted Police Superintendent Kent Osmond said Saturday.

“Such an investigation will proceed only if our examination of the circumstances indicate criminal, federal or provincial laws may possibly have been broken,” he told reporters.

[The founder of OceanGate died in the accident. However, others involved in the operation are still alive — and had better be lawyering up. One point, however, will be jurisdiction. The OceanGate operation was designed to avoid regulators in the US and Canada, which may mean that neither country has jurisdiction in a criminal sense either. — Ed]

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