Charles Hellier is not optimistic about the state of the NDT industry. This NDT veteran, now officially retired, says, "I leave NDT feeling that, even with all the efforts, we're really not hitting the mark."
The implosion of the Titan submersible is just one instance of tragedy that NDT might have been able to prevent, he says. Hellier says that there was "no real evidence that the proper nondestructive tests were done. Nothing in the way of codes that were tied back to it. I'm not saying that was the problem," he says, but this tragedy showed how NDT could have helped.