Day three of Titan disaster hearing features testimony from former dive passenger

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) —

LIVE UPDATES:

8:49 a.m. -8:51 a.m.

Rojas explained that the payment made was to be a dive passenger. She was given a contract that had a payment breakdown when she signed up to be a passenger and there was a portion that was non-refundable, according to the contract.

8:43 a.m. – 8:48 a.m.

Rojas said she has been a scuba diver since she was 12. She said she has always had a dream of going to the Titanic. She heard about OceanGate for a second time through astronaut training.

She accompanied OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush and others on a dive to the SS Andrea Doria.

She said she had no experience with submersible before her first dive to the Titanic with a company called Triton.

She dived to the Andrea Doria, two Titan test dives, a Titanic dive and one other.

8:41 a.m.

Renata Rojas, OceanGate mission specialist and former dive passenger, called to witness stand alongside legal representative.