OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, 61, is one of five aboard a submersible missing since Sunday.
"By the time we're done testing it, I believe it's pretty much invulnerable," Rush told CBS News correspondent Chip Reid more than six years ago."That's right," Rush said."But I will go on all the first dives and probably every third dive. So, I'll put my money where my mouth is."
An undated photo shows a tourist submersible belonging to OceanGate. Search-and-rescue missions continue by the Coast Guard after the Titan submersible bound for the Titanic's wreckage site went missing. In a 2017 interview, OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush called the Titan"pretty much invulnerable."by David Lochridge, a former OceanGate employee and submersible pilot.
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