Resurfaced Audio Shows CEO Of Titan Sub Making Damning Joke Before Fatal Disaster

Just months before the accident claimed his life, the CEO of OceanGate cracked a joke about the dangers of diving down to the Titanic in his Titan submersible.When Stockton Rush and four other people died on the disastrous seacraft during its very impossible journey, he was only 61 years old.

Unreleased audio from the submersible’s search and rescue operations may be found in an ITN documentary titled The Titan Sub Disaster: Minute by Minute, which aired earlier this year.It also featured a brief clip of the OceanGate CEO discussing his impending trip to the notorious Titanic wreckage in a radio interview.

The Titan submersible was ultimately doomed.OceanGate/Becky Kagan Schott

Rush and the four other passengers—British billionaire Hamish Harding, French marine expert Paul-Henri Nargeolet, Shahzada Dawood, and his son Sulaiman—were killed in the sub’s deadly implosion on June 18, 2023.

The disaster was caused by extremely high water pressure and the use of substandard materials in its construction.Many had cautioned him that the Titan’s design might be dangerous for the people on board, thus attention had been drawn to it in the years before the trip.