Doomed OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush — who lost his life along with four others when the Titan submersible imploded — was “a cowboy” who “didn’t want anyone telling him what he coul…
In a 2022 interview with CBS, Rush claimed “we worked with Boeing and NASA and the University of Washington” on the Titan. But all three have denied this,Stockton Rush bragged about using a plastic video game controller as the steering mechanism for his submarine.“[Rush] told me, ‘When you’re trying something outside the box, people inside the box think you’re nuts,’” journalist David Pogue — who spent nine days with Rush for “CBS Sunday Morning” — told The Post.
“I would have never gotten into that unit,” Butch Hendricks, who teaches extreme undersea diving, told The Post. “He couldn’t explain enough safety procedures to make me do it. He would just tell people that they had a fine maintenance program. He had his own ideas about how to make things work.” But professionally built planes were not enough for renegade Rush. He built his own plane, from a kit, while studying aerospace engineering at Princeton.
But standing in the Mojave Desert during a 2014 test flight, watching Branson showboat on the wing of the grounded spacecraft, Rush was turned off by the idea of sanitized space-tourism.The Titan was built to explore the wreckage of the Titanic.Changing his trajectory, Rush began piecing together his first submarine; built from spare parts, it was designed to go only 30 feet underwater. But Rush was quick to take it to 100 feet.“He was willing to go down with it,” Weed said.
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