The Titan submersible, operated by OceanGate Expeditions to explore the wreckage of the sunken SS Titanic off the coast of Newfoundland, dives in an undated photograph. OceanGate Expeditions/Handout via REUTERS
OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, who was also onboard the submersible,lamented in a 2019 Smithsonian Magazine articlethat passenger-vessel regulations were stifling innovation. “There hasn’t been an injury in the commercial sub industry in over 35 years. It’s obscenely safe, bec...