A one-time occupant of the submarine that exploded over the wreckage of the Titanic last month, killing five people, said he believed OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, who died in the accident, knew the Titan’s voyages would end in disaster. But it continued to create a “mousetrap for billionaires”.
Carl Stanley, who interviewed 60 minutes australia On Sunday, he told the broadcast that he had warned his friend that the carbon-fiber-titanium composite was dangerous.
“He definitely knew it would end that way. He came out literally and figuratively with the biggest banger in human history you can come up with,” Stanley said. “He was the last person to kill a one-time billionaire and make them pay for the privilege.”
“I think Stockton was designing a mousetrap for billionaires,” Stanley added.
Stanley, who was on a diving trip with Rush in the Bahamas in 2019, said in the interview that he had “no doubt” in his mind “that the carbon fiber tube was the mechanical part that failed” during the Titan excursion. The last flight. The US Coast Guard said shortly after Titanic’s wreckage was found off the bow of the Titanic that it appeared to have suffered “catastrophic airlock loss”.
Images of the Titan pieces taken in Canada showed skeletal rings of titanium at the front and back of Titan which are believed to support the theory that the carbon fiber tube collapsed under intense pressure from the water at that depth.
The accident is currently under investigation by the US Coast Guard, the Transportation Safety Board of Canada and the UK’s Maritime Accident Investigation Branch.
Stanley, who runs a Honduras deep sea exploration companyStanley Subs, previously said that after he made his trip on Titan he sent an email to Rush warning him of the suspected flaws.
“What we heard, in my opinion…it sounded like a defect/defect in one area being dealt with by enormous pressures and crushing/damaging it,” Stanley she wrote in an email obtained by CNN.
“From the intensity of the sounds, the fact that they never quite stop in depth, and the fact that there are sounds at about 300 feet up indicate a relaxation of the stored energy / Indicates that there is an area of structure that breaks,” Stanley wrote to Rush.
In his recent comments, Stanley said in an interview with 60 Minutes that he was snubbed by Rush, who lashed out at “uninformed accusations from industry pundits” and incited Rush to move forward with his doomed venture.
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