OceanGate CEO crashed submersible into shipwreck in 2016, threw controller at crew: ex-employee

Former OceanGate operations director David Lochridge, who labeled the experimental submersible Titan unsafe prior to its last, deadly voyage, told U.S. Coast Guard investigators on Tuesday about a previous mission in which he clashed with CEO Stockton Rush that ended badly. Lochridge, who was responsible for the safety of all crew and training pilots, said he was the only qualified submersible pilot within OceanGate. Nevertheless, he recalled, Rush insisted on piloting a 2016 voyage using the Cyclops 1 vessel to the site of the Andrea Doria shipwreck. He said there...