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OceanGate CEO appears to boast about ‘bending rules’ in construction of Titanic tourist submarine
OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush appears to boast about “bending the rules” when constructing the Titanic tourist submersible, a resurfaced interview shows.
In July 2021, Mr Rush said: “I have broken some rules to make this. The carbon fibre and titanium... there is a rule that you don’t do that.“Well, I did.“
On Thursday 22 June, the US Coast Guard announced the death of all five men aboard after locating debris on the oceanfloor.
CEO Stockton Rush, Briton Hamish Harding, French diver Paul-Henri Nargeolet, businessman Shahzada Dawood and his 19-year-old son Suleman were aboard the Titan.
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