OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush – one of five crew members who died after the Titan submarine imploded last month – described the glue used to hold the vessel together as akin to “peanut butter”.
The statement was made in 2018, in a video posted on the OceanGate YouTube channel.
According to the video, at one point, Rush claims that the glue used to hold the carbon fiber structure together was like “peanut butter” and “pretty simple”.
According to the “Independent”, since the implosion of the submarine Titan last month, experts and former employees of OceanGate have alerted the Stockton Rush about safety problems with the submersible.
David Lochridge, the company’s former director of maritime operations between 2015 and 2018, raised concerns about the submarine’s safety and was eventually fired.
OceanGate’s Titan submarine disappeared on Sunday, June 18, in the North Atlantic Ocean during an expedition that was supposed to travel to the wreckage of the Titanic.
The United States Coast Guard confirmed the deaths of the submarine’s passengers on the 22nd, after wreckage was found, indicating a cabin implosion.
British businessman Hamish Harding was on board; diver Paul-Henri Nargeolet; Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son, Sulaiman Dawood; and OceanGate CEO and founder Stockton Rush.
“On behalf of the US Coast Guard, I extend my condolences to the families. I can only imagine what this has been like for them and I hope this discovery brings some comfort at this very difficult time,” said Rear Admiral John Mauger, commander of the Coast Guard’s First District, at the time in a press conference.
Source: CNN Brasil
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