And at least one director was fired for raising safety concerns (and sued for it). Calling the subs 'milliseconds from implosion.'
Some of the integral parts were literally bought at camping world because custom parts would have been too expensive.
A whistleblower raised safety concerns about OceanGate’s submersible in 2018. Then he was fired.
The OceanGate CEO believed to be missing on board a Titanic exploration submersible described how the vessel was “built with camping” parts and operated with a “game controller” in a resurfaced video. In November 2022, Stockton Rush told CBS the Titan craft was built with “off-the-shelf...
www.independent.co.uk
I'm glad they died without pain. But there is a tragic irony of three billionaires (and one of their kids, the saddest part) traveling to the mass grave of the mostly poor people in third class on the Titanic who died in droves, in a ****ty tin can they paid the equivalent of two sandwich budgets to a fraud who has had to pull out of multiple expeditions due to safety concerns, piloted with a knock-off Logitech gaming controller.