That was Renata Rojas' recollection of her time on a support ship with five people bound for the Titanic wreck. They were about to climb into a submersible made by Oceangate.

OceanGate charged six-figure prices to dive to Titanic ruins. Passengers had the title “mission specialist,” but the work was menial, a fellow sub operator said.

Meanwhile, Renata Rojas, a mission specialist, who was on board during that dive, gave a different account. She testified that no one panicked, and there was no shouting or swearing, as Mr ...

Mission specialist Renata Rojas, who volunteered for the Titan trip, testified before the U.S. Coast Guard about her interactions with the crew prior to the sub’s descent.

"The other two managed to wedge themselves into the bow end cap." Earlier, the Coast Guard heard testimony from Renata Rojas, a mission specialist for OceanGate with ties to the company stretching ...

Renata Rojas, a New York City-based banker, quickly became overwhelmed and needed a break as she appeared before the US Coast Guard Marine Board of Investigation in North Charleston, South Carolina.

Rojas also said she never felt “unsafe” on the OceanGate vessel. “I knew what I was doing was very risky,” she said. “I never at any point felt unsafe by the operation.” ...

Rojas had done several dives with OceanGate, including a 2016 dive to the Andrea Doria shipwreck on OceanGate’s Cyclops 1 submersible. She said she paid $20,000 to go on it.

Renata Rojas, a self-described Titanic obsessive, testified on Thursday, Sept. 19, that she disagreed with former OceanGate operation director David Lochridge’s account of a 2016 dive, which he ...

Former OceanGate Mission Specialist Renata Rojas was a passenger on numerous dives with OceanGate including one trip down to the Titanic on the Titan in 2022. Rojas, the fifth witness to testify in… ...

The other two managed to wedge themselves into the bow end cap." This comes after a witness revealed the harrowing moment the doomed OceanGate Titan sub vanished during the hearing. Speaking today, ...