A Las Vegas investor on Thursday published his account of giving up seats on the vessel believed to have suffered a “catastrophic implosion” during a dive to the wreck of the Titanic over the weekend.
“In February, Stockton asked me and my son, Sean, to go with him on the dive to Titanic in May,” Bloom wrote in a
descriptions characterizing him as a billionaire—on Feb. 3, asking if he’d made any progress on the decision to join a trip this year. “My son’s friend researched what could go wrong and put a little scare in him,” Bloom replied. “I’m trying to talk him down. He’s excited to go, but concerned about the danger.”
“Yeah very stupid,” Rush replied, saying that no sperm whale or squid would be able to “mess with the sub.” “While there’s obviously risk it’s way safer than flying in a helicopter or even scuba diving,” Rush continued. “There hasn’t been even an injury in 35 years in a non-military subs.
“I am sure he really believed what he was saying,” Bloom wrote. “But he was very wrong.” He added that he last saw Rush in person on March 1 when the pair attended a Titanic exhibition at the Luxor Las Vegas casino hotel. “Then, at lunch in the Luxor food court we talked about the dive, including safety,” Bloom wrote. “He was absolutely convinced that it was safer than crossing the street.”
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