One of the passengers aboard the submarine that disappeared while diving to the wreckage of the Titanic is Stockton Rush, CEO and founder of OceanGate, the tourist company responsible for the trip.
The submersible “Titan” began its descent on Sunday (18) morning, but lost contact with the crew of the Polar Prince, the support vessel that transported the vessel to the wreckage site, 1 hour and 45 minutes after the descent, according to officials.
The search for the submarine continues this Tuesday (20). According to the Coast Guard, the vessel would have enough “breathable air” to last until Thursday morning (22).
Five people are on board the “Titan”. In addition to Stockton Rush, British businessman Hamish Harding, Pakistani billionaire Shahzada Dawood and his son Sulaiman Dawood and French diver Paul-Henri Nargeolet are on board.
Stockton Rush is CEO and Founder of OceanGate Inc. He founded the company in 2009, and today oversees financial and engineering strategies.
OceanGate is a leading provider of manned submersibles. The “Titan” is technically a submersible and not a submarine as it is popularly called.
Unlike submarines, a submersible needs a mother ship to launch it. A submarine can also stay underwater for much longer, while submersibles have much less power reserves, according to OceanGate itself.
According to his biography available on the company’s website, Rush became the youngest jet pilot in the world in 1981, at the age of 19, after obtaining his DC-8 Type/Captain rating at the United Airlines Jet Training Institute.
He is also said to have overseen the development of several ventures. He would have been a member of the board of directors of BlueView Technologies of Seattle, a manufacturer of small high-frequency sonar systems, a board member of Entomo, an enterprise software developer, and president of Remote Control Technology, a manufacturer of wireless remote control devices. .
At age 27, according to his biography, he built an experimental Glasair III aircraft and then a two-person Kittredge K-350 submersible with various modifications, both of which would have worked well.
*Posted by Fernanda Pinotti
Source: CNN Brasil
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