In a 2018 lawsuit Ocean Gate's former director of marine operations described the company's testing and certification as insufficient and said that would subject passengers to potential extreme danger according to PBS.
We do what's right for the team, and what was right for the team is to stay up here, and be expedition crew members for the International Space Station.
If you had to select the least convivial scientific field trip of all time, you could certainly do worse than the French Royal Academy of Sciences' Peruvian expedition of 1735.