OceanGate ceases operations after Titanic tragedy

Almost three weeks after the experimental Titan submersible crushed all on board, the organisation said that it has “suspended all exploration and commercial operations”.No further details were given beyond the small red text at the top of the company’s website.The end of operations comes a day after a bombshell New Yorker investigation that revealed new details about the company and the final moments of the Titan five, British adventurer Hamish Harding, 58; French veteran Titanic explorer Paul-Henri Nargeolet, 77; British-Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood, 48, and his 19-year-old son Suleman.In the latest shocking detail to emerge of the carbon-fibre hull, video revealed CEO Stockton Rush comparing the glue holding the submersible together to “peanut butter”.In a 2018 clip on the company’s YouTube channel, titled “Bonding the Titanium Ring and Carbon Fibre Hull”, Rush admitted the design was “pretty simple, but if we mess it up, there’s not a lot of recovery”.“The glue’s very thick, so it’s not like Elmer’s Glue, it’s like peanut butter,” he said.“That will be the pressure vessel,” Rush continued in the video. “It’ll go to 4,000 metres. Be the deepest, diving, carbon fibre sub ever built … I’m going to be the first one in the sub, so, we will see.”After the first successful dive, however, Rush reportedly asked other OceanGate staffers to captain the Titan submersible, according to the company’s former finance director.NED-9370 Titan Tragedy Implosion GraphicSpeaking to The New Yorker on condition of anonymity, the ex-employee said she quit after Rush wanted her to replace the original pilot, David Lochridge, who had been fired.“It freaked me out that he would want me to be head pilot, since my background is in accounting, I could not work for Stockton. I did not trust him.”In an email to an ex-associate, Mr Lochridge warned years earlier about the dangers of the sub and its creator.“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,” he wrote, according to The New Yorker.

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Almost three weeks after the experimental Titan submersible crushed all on board, the organisation said that it has “suspended all exploration and commercial operations”.No further details were given beyond the small red text at the top of the company’s website.The end of operations comes a day after a bombshell New Yorker investigation that revealed new details about the company and the final moments of the Titan five, British adventurer Hamish Harding, 58; French veteran Titanic explorer Paul-Henri Nargeolet, 77; British-Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood, 48, and his 19-year-old son Suleman.In the latest shocking detail to emerge of the carbon-fibre hull, video revealed CEO Stockton Rush comparing the glue holding the submersible together to “peanut butter”.In a 2018 clip on the company’s YouTube channel, titled “Bonding the Titanium Ring and Carbon Fibre Hull”, Rush admitted the design was “pretty simple, but if we mess it up, there’s not a lot of recovery”.“The glue’s very thick, so it’s not like Elmer’s Glue, it’s like peanut butter,” he said.“That will be the pressure vessel,” Rush continued in the video. “It’ll go to 4,000 metres. Be the deepest, diving, carbon fibre sub ever built … I’m going to be the first one in the sub, so, we will see.”After the first successful dive, however, Rush reportedly asked other OceanGate staffers to captain the Titan submersible, according to the company’s former finance director.NED-9370 Titan Tragedy Implosion GraphicSpeaking to The New Yorker on condition of anonymity, the ex-employee said she quit after Rush wanted her to replace the original pilot, David Lochridge, who had been fired.“It freaked me out that he would want me to be head pilot, since my background is in accounting, I could not work for Stockton. I did not trust him.”In an email to an ex-associate, Mr Lochridge warned years earlier about the dangers of the sub and its creator.“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,” he wrote, according to The New Yorker.