A father and son gave up their tickets to board the submersible Titan just weeks before the fatal implosion, over concerns about the vessel’s safety.
Jay Bloom and his son Sean said they were both concerned about the submersible and its ability to go to the bottom of the ocean before the planned trip.
Their seats ended up going to the father and son who were on board when the ship imploded, Shahzada and Suleman Dawood.
“I saw a lot of red flags,” Sean told Erin Burnett of the CNN , on the night of this Friday (23). He watched a video of Stockton Rush, the tour organizer and CEO of the company responsible for the trip – OceanGate Expeditions –, walking through the submersible and showing its features.
Sean said he told his father that he didn’t think the vessel would make it that deep in the ocean.
Jay shared a text message exchange between himself and Rush, in which the CEO offered slots on the vessel for the May expedition.
Rush flew to Las Vegas in March to try to convince Jay to buy tickets. He scored at CNN that Rush flew in an experimental two-seater plane that he built himself.
“He has a different taste for taking risks than I do,” said Jay.
Both Jay and Sean said Rush brushed off the doubts and concerns the two had about the submersible.
“He was so passionate about the project that he was blinded by it,” said Jay. “He didn’t look at the things that I saw and that others saw that were problematic because they didn’t fit with his narrative.”
The father-son duo said they will never try to do something like that again after watching the news.
“All I saw when I saw that father and son was me and my son. It could have been us,” Jay said.
Source: CNN Brasil
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