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John-Paul Clark

OceanGate CEO ignored 17 warnings before Titan sub imploded killing five people

The OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush who died onboard the doomed Titan submersible, repeatedly ignored warnings his vessel could kill someone.

The vessel was on an expedition to the Titanic wreckage when it lost contact with the tour operator an hour and 45 minutes into the two-hour descent. Following days of searching, debris from the submersible was finally recovered from the ocean floor after an implosion killed all five people on board, reports the Mirror.

Rush had previously boasted about "breaking rules" before he died alongside UK adventurer Hamish Harding and father and son Shahzada and Suleman Dawood and Frenchman Paul-Henri Nargeolet. All five died instantly after the sub's carbon fibre hull imploded under the immense pressure of the Atlantic Ocean.

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