according to OceanGate’s former head of operations, “very little in the way of science” was involved.
All five persons on board perished when the ship imploded in June of last year while en route to the Titanic wreckage.
He confirmed the comments made by other former staff members on Stockton Rush, the company’s leader, stating that he was erratic and challenging to collaborate with.
Mr. Rush perished in the disaster, along with Frenchman Paul-Henri Nargeolet, British wealthy explorer Hamish Harding, and father and son Shahzada and Suleman Dawood.
When Mr. Lochridge inspected the first Titan hull, he submitted a report describing the hull as “porous paper” and expressing his “appalled” reaction to the O-ring, a sort of seal. It was repulsive.
He had “no confidence whatsoever” in the 2017 Titan’s construction process at the hearing, attributing flaws to “bad engineering decisions,” “cost-cutting,” and “the desire to get to the Titanic as quickly as they could to start making a profit.”
