The Latest Breaking News from Stockton Rush

OceanGate said it is suspending “all exploration and commercial operations” after five people were killed — including the company’s CEO Stockton Rush — during a deep-sea expedition to the wreckage of the Titanic.

The company previously offered expeditions that cost $250,000 to join

The CEO of OceanGate Expeditions, Stockton Rush, likened the glue holding their experimental submersible together to peanut butter five years before the fatal implosion of the submersible

Stockton Rush said there was ‘not a lot of room for error’ if the sub’s hull failed

The OceanGate submersible Titan that historically imploded last month spun out of control and started malfunctioning during a 2022 dive, a BBC documentary shows

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‘I’m so worried he kills himself and others in the quest to boost his ego,’ a former OceanGate employee wrote in a 2018 email obtained by The New Yorker

Rush downplayed a loud noise on a previous Titan dive, saying ‘almost every deep-diving sub makes a noise at some point’

Neither experts nor friends could get through to OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush when they expressed their concerns over the safety of Titan, the submersible that imploded on June 18

‘I’m so worried he kills himself and others in the quest to boost his ego,’ a former OceanGate employee wrote in a 2018 email obtained by The New Yorker

OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush said much of the sub's electrics had to be replaced following the lightning strike. He went on to die along with four passengers when the sub imploded