Stockton Rush, founder of the company that owns the missing submersible craft that was on its way to view the Titanic wreckage, has said safety is “pure waste.”
“I mean if you just want to be safe, don’t get out of bed, don’t get in your car, don’t do anything,” Rush said in a 2022 podcast with CBS reporter David Pogue. “At some point, you’re going to take some risk, and it really is a risk-reward question.”
British-born sea adventurer Rob McCallum, who has visited the wreck of the Titanic, consulted for OceanGate in its earlier years but parted ways with the company for several reasons, including concern that Chief Executive Officer Rush was moving too quickly, Bloomberg reported in 2017. In a statement Wednesday, NASA said it consulted on the materials and construction process for the Titan but didn’t conduct testing or use its workforce or facilities for manufacturing.
Submersibles, unlike boats and other vessels, are largely unregulated, particularly when they operate in international waters, according to the New York Times. “Bringing an outside entity up to speed on every innovation before it is put into real-world testing is anathema to rapid innovation,” the post said.Since the Titan’s disappearance, several former passengers who have boarded the submersible said they’d signed a waiver before embarking that clearly delineated the extreme risks.
Some have questioned why OceanGate representatives waited so long after losing contact with the Titan to alert the US Coast Guard that the ship had gone missing. The surface ship lost contact with Titan an hour and 45 minutes into the dive, at 9:45 a.m. New York time on Sunday, but the company waited until 5:40 p.m. to alert the Coast Guard.
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