#320 The Tale of Delusions of Grandeur: The Folly of Stockton Rush [Part 1]

On Father's Day here in the United States two summers ago...it was Sunday, June 18, 2023 when news broke that a ship that departed the coast of Newfoundland had lost communication with a manned submersible it had towed out to the Titanic wreckage dive site and that if failed to resurface at its planned time of 3 p.m.  When it was reported that the submersible, named Titan, had a supply of oxygen that would last about 96 hours, the majority of the world became transfixed on the search and rescue efforts as time ticked away.  While most were openly hopeful the passengers would be found alive, experts in the manned submersible community quietly understood those 5 souls were never coming back. This episode explores what we've learned about this event, OceanGate, Titan, and its creator, Stockton Rush, III.

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SOURCES:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/roycanivel/2025/04/05/in-memoriam-the-31-billionaires-who-died-over-the-past-year/

https://www.etnownews.com/companies/pressure-suicides-deaths-inside-the-lesser-known-corporate-world-ceos-executives-who-killed-themselves-article-116319957

https://www.britannica.com/event/Titan-submersible-implosion

https://www.engineering.com/trust-me-im-an-engineer-a-broken-promise-that-sunk-the-titan-submersible/

https://birminghamjournal.co.uk/stockton-rush/

https://www.geekwire.com/2019/oceangate-puts-off-plans-dive-titanic-shipwreck-due-topside-tangle/

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