‘You’re remembered for the rules you break’: OceanGate CEO who was piloting the Titan admitted in 2021 that the sub’s construction had ‘broken some rules’
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‘You’re remembered for the rules you break’: OceanGate CEO who was piloting the Titan admitted in 2021 that the sub’s construction had ‘broken some rules’
https://fortune.com/2023/06/23/titan-sub-latest-stockton-rush-oceangate-ceo-broken-rules-submarine-passengers-implosion-safe-titanic/
OceanGate was warned that the Titan, which suffered a “catastrophic implosion” on its journey to see the Titanic shipwreck, had serious design flaws.
“I’d like to be remembered as an innovator,” he said, speaking from the interior of one of OceanGate’s submersibles. “I think it was [famous American General Douglas] MacArthur that said, ‘You’re remembered for the rules you break.’”
“I have broken some rules to make this,” he conceded. “I think I’ve broken them with logic and good engineering behind me. The carbon fiber and titanium—there is a rule that you don’t do that. Well, I did.”