OceanGate CEO claimed sub was safer than scuba diving, texts show A Las Vegas father and son told ABC News OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush pressured them for months into taking two seats on the now failed mission to the Titanic, making bold claims about the vessel's safety. Financier Jay Blo...
Lochridge alleged he had raised concerns about the safety of the Titan with OceanGate and advised the company to conduct more testing of the the vessel's hull. Lochridge said he had disagreed with his employer about the best way to test the safety of the sub and that he objected to...
Authorities are investigating the cause of the vessel's collapse, which has called into question the regulations surrounding such deep-sea voyages. A former employee of OceanGate, David Lochridge, had raised concerns over "safety and quality control issues regarding the Titan to OceanGate exec...
Dubbed the Titan, OceanGate's deep sea vessel, was said to be the only five-person submersible in the world with the capabilities to reach the Titanic's depth, nearly 2 and a half miles beneath the ocean's surface, CBS "Sunday Mornings" correspondent David Pogue reported last year. ...
The company states the debris found by rescuers appears to have originated from the vessel that was headed for the remnants of the Titanic.
Titanic submersible: documents reveal multiple concerns raised over safety of vessel Guardian, 21 June 2023 = 6/20 20:25 PDT It is now confirmed that the fifth passenger aboard Titan is Paul-Henri Nargeole. OceanGate has confirmed that its CEO Stockton Rush is aboard and the pilot for Titan...
says explorer who nixed documentary over safety concerns veteran explorer josh gates, who hosts a tv series investigating myths and legends around the world, revealed on twitter wednesday that the missing oceangate sub "did not perform well" when he went on a dive aboard the vessel himself. the...
The 21-foot deep-sea vessel, operated by OceanGate Expeditions, lost contact about an hour and 45 minutes after submerging on Sunday morning with a 96-hour oxygen supply. That amount of breathable air was forecast to run out ...
In 2018, a professional trade group wrote a letter warning that the Titan's design could have "catastrophic" outcomes. Also that year, an OceanGate employee raised concerns about the vessel's safety and how the company was testing it and was later fired. The...
Regarding safety, Brooks specifically pointed to a need for him and others under him to work on the submersible at sea, as it rested on a platform that “bobs up and down” while being towed by its mother ship or anchored. “I just did not see that I could do that … The reasons ...