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Moreominous details are springing up about the doomed ‘Titan’ submersible.
According to a recent report from theNew Yorker, one OceanGate employee was worried about theTitanic-bound tourist expedition years before its fatal implosion,which killed all five people aboard. As fas back as 2018, OceanGate employee David Lochridge was sounding the alarm.
Lochridge’s study reportedly enraged OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, who quickly called an emergency meeting. According to employees present, Rush used the meeting to shoot down Lochridge’s report. “We didn’t even have a baseline,” one employee recalled to theNew Yorker. “We didn’t know what it would sound like if something went wrong.”
Two weeks later, Lochridge wrote his concerns in an email to a coworker, saying, “I would consider myself pretty ballsy when it comes to doing things that are dangerous, but that sub is an accident waiting to happen.”
Lochridge went on to further question Rush’s role in the upcoming mission: “I don’t want to be seen as a Tattle tale but I’m so worried he kills himself and others in the quest to boost his ego.”
Recovered debris from the ‘Titan’ submersible.Paul Daly/The Canadian Press via AP
Paul Daly/The Canadian Press via AP
For the past three years, he told PEOPLE, “I’ve been advising people under no circumstances go to Titanic on that submersible. I didn’t consider it safe because of the way it was constructed and the fact that it had not been tested or certified.”
McLaren summed up his opinion of the submersible succinctly: “It was a catastrophe waiting to happen.”
source: people.com
