A former chief financial officer at OceanGate – the company responsible for the Titan submarine, which imploded last month, killing all five passengers on board – said the company hired “teenagers” as engineers at one point. The employee preferred not to identify herself in her interview to The New York Times.
She said some of the engineers hired were in their late teens or early 20s. And that they were paid as much as $15 an hour.
The former director said she resigned after Stockton Rush, the CEO of OceanGate and one of the victims in the tragedy involving the submarine Titan, offered her the position of chief pilot of the vessel, even though her background was in accounting.
The vacancy was reportedly offered shortly after the resignation of the pilot originally hired to do so, David Lochridge, after he raised concerns about the vessel’s safety.
She said that without Lochridge, she wouldn’t be able to work for Rush. “I didn’t trust him.”
Source: CNN Brasil
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