Aaron Newman is opening up about missing Titanic research submersible and his firsthand experience.

As rescue missions continue to find the missing submersible, the OceanGate investor spoke to Today about touring the wreckage of the Titanic back in 2021, and described the experience as “basically going to another planet.”

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“You’re getting in this craft—you’re bolted in. It’s a tube that’s comfortable, but not spacious,” he said, describing the cabin “very hot and stuffy,” until the vessel drops to 29 to 30 degrees Fahrenheit deeper down.

“By the time you hit the bottom, the water down there is below what standard freezing temperature is. That’s going to conduct right through that metal, so it was cold when we were at the bottom. You had to layer up—we had wool hats on and were doing everything to stay warm at that bottom.”

He said that he felt “very safe” while riding, however, “there are risks.”

“This is not a Disney ride, right? We’re going places that very few people have been, and this is inventing things.”

“None of these people were people that were I would consider tourists—tourists is such a bad term. These are people who lived on the edge and loved what they were doing and if anything’s going on, these are people that are that are calm and thinking this through and doing what they can to stay alive. So this is a good set of people,” he continued.

“Our focus is just hoping for this Hollywood ending to happen. We know the Coast Guard and everybody else is working so hard. And the OceanGate crew is working as hard as they can to possibly find this if anything is out there. It’s promising but there’s work to be done, and that’s what the focus is.”

There’s been a significant update in the ongoing search for the missing OceanGate submarine.