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Deadline reports:

A British TV presenter has revealed that, like Discovery+ explorer Josh Gates, he considered making a show in which he travelled to the wreck of the Titanic in an OceanGate sub – before rejecting the plan as “unsafe.” The Sun reports that Ross Kemp – a veteran of daredevil documentary-making over the last two decades – had planned to make the show last summer, before pulling out.

His agent Jonathan Shalit told the paper: “Their team checked out this OceanGate submersible and pulled out of using it, as it was simply not considered safe or fit for purpose.” The Sun quoted a TV insider who added: “When provisional enquiries were made with OceanGate, the question was asked: ‘How much training does he need to go down in the submersible to the Titanic?’ And the answer was: ‘None at all.’

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