2023-06-23 19:49:45
By Charles Plantade
Published on 06/23/2023 at 19:39, Updated on 06/23/2023 at 19:49
“If you’re not breaking things, you’re not innovating,” said Stockton Rush, founder of OceanGate. HANDOUT / AFP
NARRATIVE – Hotheaded, the Californian had set himself the daunting challenge of making the deep seabed accessible to tourists via private submersibles.
The pressure will therefore have got the better of the Titan. The small submersible, lowered to meet the wreckage of the Titanic, sank to the bottom of the North Atlantic, causing the death of the five members of its crew. Among them, Stockton Rush, co-founder and CEO of OceanGate, the expedition’s organizing company. Engineer, pilot and adventurous entrepreneur, this 61-year-old American had launched headlong into a daunting project: to make underwater exploration accessible to the public. As a true enthusiast, Stockton Rush stopped at nothing to develop this niche tourism, to the point of being at the origin of remarkable technological advances, through the construction of revolutionary private submarines. But it is not far from the Capitol to the Tarpeian Rock.
The tragic story of Titan begins in 2009. At that time, OceanGate…
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