Coast Guard

OceanGate CEO put profits over safety, ex-employee says

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To get a working submarine to the Titanic wreck site as quickly as possible, the Titan was built at the cost of safety. CEO Stockton Rush authorized cost-cutting measures and shoddy engineering, a former employee told a U.S. Coast Guard hearing Tuesday in sharp language. “There was a lot of pressure to get this done. … Read more

Titan submarine interrogation begins as questions linger over what went wrong

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The submarine Titan plunged thousands of feet into the North Atlantic Ocean while searching for the wreck site of the Titanic when the ship imploded, killing all five people on board. Those crouched inside the doomed deep-water vessel, which set sail from the Canadian coast on June 18, 2023, were the American CEO and pilot, … Read more