Oceangate CEO was playing ‘Russian roulette’ with occupants’ safety on Titan submersible

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Oceangate CEO Stockton Rush was playing “Russian roulette” with occupants’ safety on the doomed Titan submersible as the vessel was weak and adventurers were warned against travelling in it, a victim’s friend has revealed in explosive new details about the tragedy.

A friend of a victim on the doomed Titan submersible said Oceangate CEO Stockton Rush was playing “Russian roulette” with occupants’ safety on the vessel, as he revealed explosive new details about the tragedy.

Mr Rush convinced British adventurer Hamish Harding, Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman Dawood and Titanic expert Paul-Henri Nargeolet to pay £195,000 for a ticket to visit the Titanic wreckage on the seafloor of the Atlantic Ocean. Picture: OceanGate.Speaking to The UK’s The Mirror on Monday, Mr Harding’s friend Victor Vescovo said he warned the British adventurer against travelling in the vessel as it was a doomed game of “Russian roulette”.

He said the Marine Technical Society previously wrote a letter to Mr Rush pleading him to get the subclassed or else cease his operations, however the businessman ignored the warning.

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