Source: New York Post
OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush always planned to die at the wreck of the Titanic, according to a close friend accusing him of murdering the wealthy tourists who paid big money to ride his “mousetrap for billionaires. ” The multimillionaire engineer wanted to become part of “Titanic mythology” by designing a makeshift submersible to implode when he took it 12,500 feet to the sea floor, according to his longtime friend Karl Stanley, a fellow expert in commercial submersibles wh “He was in fact a good engineer, and that machine did exactly what he designed it to do … He set a new standard for going out with a bang,” Stanley told author Matthew Gavin Frank for his new book, “Submersed: Wonder, Obsession and Murder in the World of Amateur Submarines. ” 5 OceanGate founder Stockton Rush inside the doomed Titan submersible.
