OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush ignored myriad hair-raising red flags about the company’s Titan submersible in the years leading up to last month’s doomed Titanic voyage.
— and the fact that its buoyancy was maintained via rusty construction pipes resting on shelves on its side.
The flimsy construction caused Chris Brown, 61, a multimillionaire thrill-seeker who signed up for the doomed voyage with his friend Harding,“Eventually I emailed them and said, ‘I’m no longer able to go on this thing,’” Brown told the Sun, fearing OceanGate was “cutting too many corners.” Debris from the Titan submersible that was recovered from the ocean floor near the Titanic is unloaded from the Horizon Arctic in St. John’s, Newfoundland, on June 28.Former passenger and German adventurer Arthur Loibl, who paid nearly $110,000 for a peek at the Titanic wreck in 2021, said that when the bracket of the stabilization tube responsible for balancing the submersible tore, it was ““It was a suicide mission back then!” he said.
McCallum jumped ship on working with Rush after the CEO refused to have the Titan marine-certified, despite him telling Rush how supportive classification agencies have been on his other projects.When people began hearing about Rush’s plan to take passengers to the Titanic, they “would ring me, and say, ‘We’ve always wanted to go to Titanic. What do you think?’ And I would tell them, ‘Never get in an unclassed sub. I wouldn’t do it, and you shouldn’t, either,'” he told the New Yorker.
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