OceanGate founder and CEO Stockton Rush crashed a submersible into a shipwreck and then threw the vessel’s rudimentary controls at a more experienced employee years before he piloted the doomed Titan voyage last summer.
Rush insisted on piloting a Cyclops submersible to the Andrea Doria wreck off Massachusetts in the summer of 2016, OceanGate whistleblower David Lochridge told the US Coast Guard Marine Board of Investigation Tuesday morning.
“He wouldn’t listen,” Lochridge recalled of Rush’s refusal to heed warnings about difficult weather and tide conditions as he deployed the sub 250 feet underwater with three paying clients on board.
Read more at https://nypost.com/2024/09/17/us-news/oceangates-stockton-rush-crashed-submersible-years-before-titan-disaster/
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