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The Titan submersible, operated by OceanGate Expeditions to explore the wreckage of the sunken RMS Titanic off the coast of Newfoundland, imploded in June 2023. (OceanGate Expeditions/Handout/Reuters)

A mission specialist for the company that owned the Titan submersible that imploded last year told the U.S. Coast Guard on Thursday that the firm was staffed by competent people who wanted to “make dreams come true.”

Renata Rojas was the latest person to testify who was connected to Titan owner OceanGate. An investigatory panel had previously listened to two days of testimony that raised questions about the company’s operations before the doomed mission. OceanGate co-founder Stockton Rush was among five people who died when the submersible imploded en route to the site of the Titanic wreck in June 2023.

Rojas’s testimony struck a different tone than some of the earlier witnesses, who described the company as troubled from the top down and …

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