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...
OceanGate announced that all five passengers were believed to be dead. First Coast Guard District commanderRear Admr. John Maugersaid the debris found off the Canada coast is consistent with a “catastrophic implosion” of the submersible.
submersible. they show that boeing and the university of washington were both involved in the early stages of oceangate’s carbon-fiber sub project, although their work did not make it into the final titan design. the trove also reveals a company culture in which employees who questioned their...