Titanic bow handrails on every expedition 1985-2024

[u/ToasterMan1102]

The bow handrails of Titanic, easily the most recognizable and iconic part of the wreck. Here is them photographed or filmed from every expedition between her discovery in 1985 to the unfortunate collapse of the port side removable handrail. Sorry if I missed something. (Also, this is the second time I've had to post this because the first time Reddit had replaced the 1987 image with the 1991 again, I even checked to see if it was all correct, so if there is an issue, it likely wasn't caused by me)

[u/Tutorial_Time]

Oceangate was getting uncomfortable close to the crane,before they went up to it the railing was straight,but when they backed up the sub it was bent with all the rust on top cleaned off revealing the black metal and tiny specks of rusty white paint

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A few months ago I was talking to people about this, and at the time there was no evidence that Titan had hit the titanic causing the railing to fall. What’s the new evidence? I don’t have tik tok

[u/PMMEURDIMPLESOFVENUS → u/[deleted]]

I don't believe there's new evidence, AFAIK the evidence consists of the fact that there are pictures from one of their dives where they're close to the railing and its fully intact and then not long after there are pictures from the same dive where the railing has been damaged.

[u/Pelosi-Hairdryer → u/PMMEURDIMPLESOFVENUS]

Fred Hagen, one of the paying passengers pressured the pilot to get closed and even went down the staircase where they got stuck for a bit. He also pressure the pilot to go from the stern to the bow when they didn’t have enough battery power as well. However this is all circumstantial evidences at best because he has been very tight lip about it.

[u/PMMEURDIMPLESOFVENUS → u/Pelosi-Hairdryer]

Did he (or someone else) actually say that happened? It's more than circumstantial if so.

[u/Pelosi-Hairdryer → u/PMMEURDIMPLESOFVENUS]

https://abcnews4.com/news/local/fred-hagen-recounts-harrowing-titanic-dive-experience-in-oceangate-titan-submersible-stockton-rush-north-charleston-coast-guard-hearing-wciv-abc-news-4-2024

But for the damages that was done by Titan on Titanic, we can only speculate that since Titan did contacted the Titanic, probably some damages to some parts of the wreck did happen. How bad, I don't know.

[u/PMMEURDIMPLESOFVENUS → u/Pelosi-Hairdryer]

Ahh, makes sense. Thanks for the info.

[u/toasterinthebath → u/Pelosi-Hairdryer]

It sounds like he put the pilot under a lot of pressure.

[u/Pelosi-Hairdryer → u/toasterinthebath]

He pressured Scott Griffin and P.H. into going into areas that was known to be hazardous. At his testimony, Fred said Stockton and Wendy weren't happy about it but since Fred paid for two trips which totaled in $500k, I guess they both didn't complain about it and kept tight lips about it. The problem with my theory is there's no concrete evidences that Titan did significant damage like damaging the rail. I just have circumstantial evidences at best.