An interview with OceanGate's CEO Rush Stockton has resurfaced - as a huge search is underway to find the missing inventor - who is on board with British billionaire Hamish Harding, French Titanic expert Paul-Henry Nargeolet and Shahzada Dawood, a UK-based board member of the Prince's Trust charity, along with his son Sulaiman Dawood.
In one startling admission, he admitted that old-timers in the industry "told me I was nuts, and they continue to tell me that" - a statement that seems extremely poignant now.
In the exchange, he added: "But they said it earlier, and with more conviction... Partly because I said I was going to take inexperienced pilots, in a submarine, in current, with zero visibility and impudent sound, and they thought I was insane."
