Dr. Jennifer Waters represented Maritime College and shared her ocean engineering expertise with the NYC news outlet, Eyewitness News, on a segment regarding the Titanic Submersible reported missing on June 18 in the North Atlantic Ocean.
Dr. Waters, Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs – who has a distinguished career as an ocean engineer, naval architect and academician – appeared in an interview on the evening of June 21 with an Eyewitness News correspondent, as well as with the Eyewitness News morning and noon anchors on June 22.
During her interviews, Dr. Waters explained the purpose of a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) that was launched to search for the missing submersible and the five individuals on board. In terms of the vessel response to the missing submersible, Dr. Waters also discussed the importance of carefully analyzing any debris that would be recovered to determine whether the debris belonged to the submersible.
View the segments on Eyewitness News: