On Wednesday, we reported that OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush had beforehand dismissed security considerations relating to the Titan submersible, saying, “You understand, there’s a restrict. In some unspecified time in the future security simply is pure waste. I imply when you simply need to be secure, don’t get off the bed. Don’t get in your automotive. Don’t do something. In some unspecified time in the future, you’re going to take some danger, and it truly is a danger/reward query. I believe I can do that simply as safely by breaking the foundations.” We now know that he couldn’t, in reality, do it safely, however new data reveals that he was much more reckless than beforehand identified.

CBS experiences that in a video interview from 2021, Rush advised vlogger Alan Estrada, “I’d prefer to be remembered as an innovator. I believe it was Common [Douglas] MacArthur who stated, ‘You’re remembered for the foundations you break. And I’ve damaged some guidelines to make this. I believe I’ve damaged them with logic and good engineering behind me.”

From there it solely will get worse:

The carbon fiber and titanium – there’s a rule you don’t do this,” Rush stated, talking of the supplies used to assemble the sub. “Effectively, I did. It’s choosing the foundations that you just break which might be those that may add worth to others and add worth to society, and that actually to me is about innovation.

It is rather troublesome to check and confirm. …Metallic hulls have elasticity to them. We all know how they behave. … However carbon fiber – very, very sturdy in pressure. They’re not so sturdy in compression. And we all know that. However it’s how do they react beneath excessive stress that leaves quite a lot of analysis.

Rush was additionally positively warned that this method was, at finest, extremely dangerous. The BBC obtained emails from 2018 between deepsea submersible knowledgeable Rob McCallum the place McCallum begged him to carry off on utilizing the Titan till it was totally examined and independently categorised. Rush’s response was that he was “bored with business gamers who attempt to use a security argument to cease innovation.” In line with McCallum, the e-mail trade stopped as a result of OceanGate’s legal professionals threatened to take authorized motion towards him.

“I believe you might be doubtlessly inserting your self and your purchasers in a harmful dynamic,” McCallum advised Rush. “In your race to Titanic you might be mirroring that well-known catch cry: ‘She is unsinkable.’” In one other message, Rush advised McCallum, “We have now heard the baseless cries of ‘you’re going to kill somebody’ method too typically. I take this as a severe private insult.”

Because it seems, he didn’t simply kill somebody. Five individuals are lifeless, together with himself. May he not have not less than taken his rinky-dink toy sub down by himself so nobody else’s households needed to undergo the lack of their family members?