OceanGate Expeditions founder and CEO Stockton Rush admitted last year that his biggest fear while conducting tourist trips to the Titanic was being stuck under the ocean aboard his own submersible. Rush, who is among the five missing aboard the...
OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, died aboard the submarine that went missing while viewing Titanic wreckage, was married to a descendant of a couple from the actual Titanic cruise.
Doomed OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush — who lost his life along with four others when the Titan submersible imploded — was "a cowboy" who "didn’t want anyone telling him what he couldn’t do," sources said.
A consultant for OceanGate told Stockton Rush he was putting the lives of his clients at risk by not having his submersible certified by outside third parties.
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OceanGate's CEO Stockton Rush was on a "predatory" hunt looking for wealthy clientele to support his doomed deepsea submersible trips to the Titanic, according to an industry expert.
"[Rush] wasn't really looking to build a tourism business to the Titanic," Bloom said. "He wanted to research and document the decay of the ship over time."
The Titanic foundation is now reviewing past records in the wake of the tragedy and questioning the truthfulness and veracity of Rush’s statements, Sanders said.
College interns were hired by OceanGate founder and CEO Stockton Rush to design the electrical systems for the ill-fated Titan submersible – in which he was killed along with four other people, according to an explosive new report.