In newly unearthed emails the chief executive of OceanGate’s Titan submersible, Stockton Rush, dismissed safety concerns over the doomed deep-sea vessel.
Mr Rush and French national Paul-Henri Nargeolet were also confirmed to have died in the incident.
After the catastrophic implosion of the vessel, the other co-founder of OceanGate, Guillermo Sohnlein, defended the firm – describing regulations surrounding visits to the Titanic wreckage as ‘tricky to navigate’. One of his emails read: ‘I implore you to take every care in your testing and sea trials and to be very, very conservative.
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