Stockton Rush took advantage of Titan passengers: Physicist

(NewsNation) — The 2023 Titan submersible disaster that killed 5 radical connected the mode to the Titanic was “preventable,” the U.S. Coast Guard said successful a study Tuesday. Physicist Dr Michael Guillen wholeheartedly concurs.

Guillen, who is besides a journalist, joined "Elizabeth Vargas Reports" connected Tuesday to sermon the Coast Guard's study and the culpability of OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush.

"He capitalized connected people's fascination with the Titanic, but helium did truthful successful a precise unsafe way, by overselling (the submersible's) information and by playing footloose with its maintenance," Guillen said.

"This was a antheral aft fame and luck ... He cared precise small astir the information of the passengers," Guillen added.

Rush was among the 5 who died. The different victims were Paul-Henri Nargeolet, Hamish Harding, Shahzada Dawood and his son, Suleman Dawood.

The Coast Guard’s Marine Board of Investigation found OceanGate, which owned Titan, had information procedures that were “critically flawed,” noting that the halfway of the failures wrong the institution came down to “glaring disparities” betwixt their information protocols and existent practices.

"This was not a whoopsie. This was preventable, this was foreseeable, this was a tragedy," Guillen added.

After the implosion, Washington state-based OceanGate suspended its operations.