The only safety training OceanGate gave Titan passengers was handing them a 'flight suit and some warm socks and a kind of fleece vest,' journalist says

• There was "no training" given by OceanGate for a Titan emergency, Arnie Weissmann told Insider.
• The Travel Weekly editor in chief was due to go on the Titan in May but his dive got canceled.

A journalist said that there was no safety training given by OceanGate to passengers on its Titan submersible.

Arnie Weissmann, editor in chief of Travel Weekly, spent eight days on the Polar Prince, the sub's support ship, in May at OceanGate's invitation.

He didn't end up making a dive to see the Titanic as it was canceled due to bad weather including "wind, swells and fog".

Weissmann told Insider there was "no training specifically" on what to do in an emergency and that passengers were simply told about how the sub "goes down and up".

"They handed you a flight suit and some warm socks and a kind of fleece vest. They said, basically, 'it'll be cold down there,'" he said.

"To be honest, there was not really any training. And even when I went in and did visit the sub on the last day, the inside being just a flat floor, actually surprised me," the journalist added.

A flight suit is a one-piece garment typically worn by astronauts and members of the military in aircraft.

Weissmann said there may have been additional instructions given to passengers if a dive had taken place.

French deep sea explorer PH Nargeolet was also on the Polar Prince with Weissmann in May.

He said Nargeolet, who was one of the five people killed with the Titan imploded in June, told him that if there was a structural problem with the sub, they'd "all be dead before we know it".

OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, who also died in the implosion, made similar comments to another passenger in May 2021. Cameraman Brian Weed told Insider's Natalie Musumeci that Rush said "well, you're dead anyway" when he inquired what would happen in an emergency.

An OceanGate representative told Insider it was "unable to comment."