By AbduRafiu
It was described as a catastrophic implosion—the tragedy of the Titan voyage to the depths of the ocean to find the wreckage of Titanic ship that sank 111 years ago. On June 21, five men comprising the pilot and four passengers embarked upon their 10-day sail from Newfoundland. Each passenger paid $250,000 to journey down the ocean floor. There had been successful trial expeditions in 2021 and 2022 by dive experts, scientists and filmmakers in rehearsal for the great plunge of two weeks ago. OceanGate, owners of Titan submersible were confident that with the air pressure inside the Titan remaining “constant and equal to what we experience at sea level, eliminating the need for decompression during the ascent,” nothing could go wrong. According to their tourist brochure seen by foxweather.com “With the click of a button, Mission Specialists can select a camera, monitor the sonar, or view preloaded images of deep-sea species, and the Titanic as they experience an entirely
foreign world that only a handful of people have had the privilege to experience.” Even then there were safety concerns and repeated warnings and that the “world of deep sea exploration is not well regulated.” Titan, it was also said was “not registered as a U.S. vessel or with international agencies that regulate safety. And it wasn’t classified by a maritime industry group that sets standards on matters such as hull construction.”
Many questions have arisen from the disaster. Was the voyage a suicide mission? Was it in aid of furtherance of science and technological development? As I reported week with reference to a BBC online, warnings over safety of the Titan submersible repeatedly sent to OceanGate were ignored by the chief executive officer of the company. A leading deep sea exploration specialist, Rob McCallum showed evidence to BBC of his warnings through emails, but the chief executive officer of OceanGate, Stockton Rush, got irritated and would like to be left alone. His response was that “he was tired of industry players who try to use a safety argument to stop innovation.” In one of the emails, McCallum had warned him that he was potentially putting his clients at risk and urged him to stop using the sub until it had been certified by an independent agency. He urged the company to seek certification before using it for commercial tours. “The vessel was never certified or classed. Until a sub is classed, tested and proven it should not be used for commercial deep dive operations. I implore you to take every care in your testing and sea trials and to be very conservative. As much as I appreciate entrepreneurship and innovation, you are potentially putting an entire industry at risk. However, the entreaties fell on deaf ears. “OceanGate engineering focused, innovative approach …flies in the face of the submersible orthodoxy, but that is the nature of innovation. Mr. McCallum made the last effort at dissuading Mr. Rush and he wrote to him: “It will be sea trials that determine whether the vehicle can handle what you intend to do with it so again, take care and keep safe. There is more riding this than Titan and the Titanic.” Mr. Rush would have none of the warnings; he took the plunge and it ended in disaster in which all on the voyage died—Mr. Rush and the four tourists enthusiastic to sail to the ocean bed to see the wreckage of the Titanic that broke into two and went down.
As I was saying, predictably, views on the catastrophic expedition will necessary differ. A great many would see nothing wrong in men’s spirit of adventure despite uneasy feelings which no doubt each of them must have been having and which they ignored or suppressed. Mr. McCallum’s pronouncements were prophetic warnings. Many saw it as the path to discovery: Nothing ventured, nothing gained; He who dares wins. Where there are no pains, there is no gain. Life is all about risk taking. There is the argument that the advancement of mankind has always come with risks. A young public figure friend of mine argues that life’s paths to development and progress are strewn with risks. He is among those who see the Titan voyage as an attempt at innovation. It was through such daringness that the world has developed, he had said in a note he sent to me. He wrote: “They are the men in the Arena. They tried and failed. Sadly they do not have a second chance. I am certain others will learn from their mistakes, improve and succeed. That is the story of mankind. Seemingly a senseless and daring mission upon which mankind’s course was altered for good.” He went on: “Don’t cry for them. When the University of Bologna the first and surviving university in the world started in 1088 AD, it was not certified by anyone. Certification is for established systems. I went to Jamestown with my family and saw the replica of the Susa Constant, the first ship that came from England in 1607. No ship registry will flag the vessel today for human transport. The imploded Titan submersible is a fore runner to our effort to conquer the seas, mountains, and space…We try, we fail, we succeed, learn, evolve and improve. That is the story of mankind.”
I have reproduced his note to serve as background for the basis of my point of view. Another interesting view was forwarded to me in which it is stated that indeed risks taking began from the cradle. It comes with childbearing processes. If it were not so, there would be no concern over maternal death rate, especially where science has not sufficiently developed to mitigate it. Women, the controversy goes, brave all the risks and pains attendant to child bearing and today our world is filled with human beings such that in some countries the talk is about overpopulation. The risk is today taken for granted and all families court it. When the risk succeeds, there is outpouring of love, there are shouts of congratulations; there is dancing and rejoicing. The risks are not over nor are the pains eliminated. The foregoing points of view are persuasive, and interesting, no doubt, and the arguments adduced seemingly unassailable.
The issues are, however, much deeper than that. Who was Mr. Rush and was there any possible connection between him and the disaster of Titanic that sank 1912, for example? Why was Mr. Rush rushing to put the vessel on the sea to comb the depths of the sea to see the unsinkable Titanic that sank 111 years ago? What forces were goading him to be obstinate and pushing him despite all warnings and signals about concerns over the viability of his vessel. Was there anything he carried deep within him that connected him with the catastrophic mission Titan, using Titan as the vessel? Mr. McCallum had said… ‘‘There is a lot more riding this than Titan and the Titanic.”
What’s in a name? This column has treated the issue of name about twice in which it was stated that there are no accidents in a name.
Each person is the name he bears. No matter how long it takes and the attendant preparation to get the name right, at Christening, the child will be given his name. The name is whispered to the prospective mother by the baby itself from the womb. If the mother is inattentive, it will be received by the father, grandmother or a woman of influence round the family. The whispering by the child is through connecting radiations between it and the mother. For the fulfillment of what he carried within him, he got himself driven to rush the mission. He was the owner OceanGate which he founded which he founded 2009 and in which he was the chief executive officer. Titan is not much different from Titanic in sound and every letter radiates, every word sends out rays which constitutes the material for weaving of tapestry of life by the Nature Beings. There is therefore no doubt that there is connection between Titan and Titanic.
Was he in the Titanic? Could he have been the owner of Titanic or the chief captain on its tragic mission? Most likely. What error of judgment did he sense strongly about Titanic the voyage of which he was undoubtedly connected? Since this expedition ended in disaster, he must come again in a repeated earthlife until there is recognition of his guilt and there is atonement and his slate is wiped clean. I believe Mr. McCallum must have been standing at his post and may have carried out his tasks to sever his own connection with the tragic mission of the Titanic and connection with Mr. Rush. The Lord and Creator does not place disaster on man’s way in order for mankind to make progress. He has placed in creation his Divine Laws to govern Creation. Was there no time when mankind forged links with the Light Region and heavenly meadows filled the earth. There was swinging as it was meant to be and there was joy and rejoicing on this same earth.
Indeed, we learn in higher knowledge that God gives to his own in their sleep. There are no inventions, there are only discoveries. All mankind are lovingly brought to the earth from a plane called Medium Gross Matter by the servants of the Lord for the use of mankind at the appropriate time based on their maturity. And we are told, our best are yet to come!
It may be asked: Of what benefit to mankind or Creation is paying a handsome fee of $250,000 for a jolly but risky ride of eight hours just to go and see the remains of a ship that got wrecked 111 years ago? Even if it was a journey of scientific investigation, which incidentally, it was not, it is still outrageous. We learn from higher knowledge beaming In the Light of Truth and spreading on earth today: Motion—A law of Creation, “Man does not gain anything by being the fastest runner, a skillful boxer, a bold driver, or if he knows whether the horse appeared on earth before or after the fly!”
Certainly the sympathy of us all goes to the occupants of the Titan submersible, (incidentally another unhappy coincidence of the name ‘Titanic’) and for their loved ones. At the same time we cannot but feel immense pithy that they chose to fritter away their precious lives in pursuit of absolutely nothing, for with knowledge we can work on ourselves and alter the course of our journey away from fateful tragedy. The question remains for everyone to ask and it is where to start: “Who am I?”