The CEO of the doomed Titanic exploration company whose submarine imploded, killing all five people onboard including him, eerily joked ‘what could go wrong?’ just weeks before the disaster.
Stockton Rush, the CEO of OceanGate, gave an interview to St John’s Radio, a Canadian radio show just a few weeks before the ill-fated Titan sub imploded during an expedition to the wreck of the Titanic off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada, in June 2023.
He coolly joked during the interview: ‘What could go wrong?’
Rush told the interviewer that he chose to launch the Titan submarine in June as that time of the year was when the waters around the wreck of the Titanic were the ‘calmest’.
‘So with the Polar Prince [the vessel that carried the submarine out to sea], that ice capability we thought, let’s move the mission a little earlier this year.
‘We specifically designed the submersible for this mission’, he added.