A 2018 email exchange between Rush and a deep-sea expert nearly led to legal action.
submersible who were declared deceased on Thursday, reportedly dismissed repeated safety concerns years before the recent deep-sea expedition.went missing Sunday after communication was lost with the vessel's control center after traveling some 13,000 feet deep to visit the wreckage of the RMS, which sank in 1912. He was joined by Captain Hamish Harding, Shahzada Dawood, Suleman Dawood and Paul-Henry Nargeolet, who were all killed by what officials called a"catastrophic implosion.
Rob McCallum, a deep-sea expedition expert, showed the BCC an email exchange he reportedly had with Rush in which he told the CEO that he was potentially putting his clients at risk. McCallum urged him to stop using the submersible until it had been classified by an independent body. "I think you are potentially placing yourself and your clients in a dangerous dynamic," McCallum wrote in March 2018."In your race to [the]Stockton Rush, the CEO of OceanGate, was one of five passengers deceased following a recent expedition to the wreckage site of the Titanic. He reportedly skirted safety concerns expressed by deep-sea experts, based on newly uncovered emails.
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