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OceanGate co-founder and CEO Stockton Rush fancied himself an adventurer, visionary and MacGyver-esque experimenter. He was also an overly ambitious proponent of deep-sea tourism whose resistance to oversight and negligence ended in tragedy just over two years ago.

In the 335 pages of the US Coast Guard Marine Board of Investigation report on the June 2023 implosion of the Titan submersible , Rush emerges as a controlling figure who failed to “follow established engineering protocols.” The report accused his company of using “intimidation tactics” and “strategically creating and exploiting regulatory confusion and oversight challenges.” It cited a “toxic workplace environment” where firings and the threat of termination dissuaded staffer

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