OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush built the Titan sub as a 'mousetrap for billionaires' designed to implode, longtime friend claims
Stockton Rush, whose friend claims the OceanGate CEO sought to become part of "Titanic mythology" when the Titan submersible imploded.Passengers paid up to $250,000 each to board the Titan; Paul-Henri Nargeolet, Hamish Harding, Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman died with Rush in June 2023.
Submersible expert Karl Stanley says Rush's 'ego was so big he was willing to die and kill' to become part of 'Titanic mythology'. He makes the claim in Matthew Gavin Frank's new book 'Submersed', published on Tuesday. Paul-Henri Nargeolet, Hamish Harding, Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman died with Rush in June 2023. Passengers had paid up to $250,000 for a seat.
Stanley: 'He set a new standard for going out with a bang.'
Frank claims the name Titan deliberately echoed the doomed liner in an 1898 novel, 'Futility'.
Former federal prosecutor Brandi Young says first-degree murder would have been tough to prove.
