A friend of decease OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush testified before a U.S. Coast Guard panel Tuesday about the disaster that took the live of five people last year.
Stockton Rush, the OceanGate co-founder and CEO behind the doomed Titan submersible, knew it would eventually kill him but kept his venture moving forward because he knew he wouldn't be held accountable, his friend told authorities this week. Karl Stanley, of the Honduras-based Roatan Institute of Deepsea Exploration, testified Tuesday before a U.S. Coast Guard panel conducting an inquiry into the June 2023 vessel implosion.
He knew that eventually it was going to end like this, and he wasn’t going to be held accountable,' Stanley, Rush’s longtime friend, testified Tuesday during the Coast Guard's inquiry into the catastrophe. 'But he was going to be the most famous of all his famous relatives,' Stanley said of Rush, a descendant of a pair of Declaration of Independence signers.
Amber Bay, director of administration for OceanGate, said that the company would not 'conduct dives that would be risky just to meet a need.' However, she agreed that the company wanted to deliver for those who paid $250,000 and were encouraged to participate as 'mission specialists.' 'There definitely was an urgency to deliver on what we had offered and a dedication and perseverance towards that goal,' she told the Coast Guard panel.
Last week, the Coast Guard released video footage of Titan wreckage spread on the ocean floor. Remotely operated vehicle footage shows the submersible’s aft dome, aft ring, hull remnants and carbon fiber debris resting on the bottom of the ocean off Newfoundland, Canada. Fox News Digital's Greg Wehner as well as The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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