Der Spiegel has an interview with a German business man who was in that sub two years ago. The interview is behind a paywall and from there cannot be copied into a translator, sorry.
The man says this: he paid 110,000 Euros, and if the trip down would be impossible due to the weather being too bad, you do not get your money back. He now calls his trip a "Himmelfahrtskommando", the submersible was in a not good shape, as I understand, and when the mothership deboarded the sub and it was in the water, ballast weights became loose and had to be fixed again, which took 1,5 hours (with the crew locked inside already. The three Americans he was with, looked at the sub and said all three "We do not dive with that thing." (Bravo!!) And they didn'T, and their money was gone but they stayed outside, safe. The descent down to the Titanic was in darkness, since lights were switched off to save power. The batteries caused problems notoriously, he said, having prevented many trips by other
suicide candidates tourists. . Just the day before his own trip, a dive was cancelled because there were technical problems. He further said that the situation on board must be a nightmare, because al space is so tight, the darkness, the cold (the smell, I would add).
Rockstar called it a diving coffin. And thats what it is. Why do people actually go aboard such a thing? I dont get it.
https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/tita...5-c96e3b16cb13