OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, one of five passengers killed on a fatal mission to the Titanic wreckage this week, once admitted on camera to “breaking some rules” to build the tourist submersible.
In comments to Mexican travel vlogger Alan Estrada in 2021, Rush evoked General MacArthur saying, “You’re remembered for the rules you break.”
“I’ve broken some rules to make this. I think I’ve broken them with logic and good engineering behind me,” Rush said.
He conceded that deep-sea submersibles “as a rule” should not be made with carbon fiber and titanium, but he did anyway.
“It’s picking the rules that you break that are the ones that will add value to others and add value to society,” Rush said.