Outrage over video in which OceanGate’s shattered CEO proudly says he broke the rules | Missing submarine

“I’d like to be remembered as an innovator,” Rush says in the video, sitting in the Titan’s cabin. I think it was General MacArthur (Commander-in-Chief of American Forces in the Far East during World War II, ed.) who once said that you remembered the rules you broke. I broke some rules to make this sub.

Then he adds that, according to him, it was intentional. “I think I broke the rules with my good logic and technique. Take carbon fiber and titanium (Who Made Titan, ed.). There is a rule that you don’t. Well, I did.”

This clearly wasn’t the right decision, Submarine builder Eric Hasselmann tells HLN LIVE. “Somehow the pressure cooker wasn’t strong enough,” he believes. He points the finger at OceanGate and accuses the company of deliberately taking too much risk. This is something many experts said to Rush himself many times during the development of Titan.

Also in an interview with CBS News six years ago, Rush sounded particularly confident when he claimed that his submarine—here we’re talking Cyclops, the Titan’s little brother—was “one of the safest modes of transportation in the world.” When asked if Cyclops is indestructible, he answers in the affirmative. “By the time all the tests are over, I think they will already be indestructible.”

“That’s what they said about the Titanic,” is the gentle reply of the interlocutor. Which elicits a coy grin from Rush and an assurance that he’ll put his money where his mouth is.

Stockton Rush announced his death yesterday after his submarine was found dismembered at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, near the wreck of the Titanic. The other four people on board did not survive.