OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, who died in the Titan tragedy, boasted in an interview that he “broke a few rules” to make the submersible.
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The video, posted by Mexican actor Alan Estrada on his YouTube channel last year, resurfaced on social media on Friday, hours after the five passengers were confirmed dead.
“I would like to be remembered as an innovator,” says designer Stockton Rush. […] You know, I broke some rules to build this (the Titan), thanks to my logic and my sense of engineering,” he adds.
The latter has always been proud of his invention, built in an alloy of carbon fiber and titanium to ensure its lightness under water, but the machine was not certified.
The American company’s co-founder, Guillermo Söhnlein, earlier claimed that security was a “key element” of OceanGate. He has not been with the company since 2013.