Titanic tour CEO didn’t hire ‘50-year-old white guys’ because they weren’t ‘inspirational’
By Jesse O’Neill
Published June 21, 2023
The OceanGate CEO who is trapped on a 22-foot submersible on an ill-fated voyage to see the Titanic wreck once explained how he didn’t hire “50-year-old white guys” with military experience to captain his vessels because they weren’t “inspirational.”
Stockton Rush, 61, added that such expertise was unnecessary because “anybody can drive the sub” with a $30 video game controller.
Gotta hand it to him. He put his money where his mouth was. He had been told the sub was getting weaker with each dive, but he wanted to make one last score.