OceanGate founder and CEO Stockton Rush crashed a submersible into a shipwreck and then threw the vessel’s rudimentary controls at a more experienced employee years before he piloted the doomed Titan voyage last summer.

Stockton Rush styled himself as a cross between an Ernest Shackleton style explorer and an Elon Musk-esq business visionary. But at the hearings into the tragedy which saw the Titan submersible owned by Rush’s OceanGate company implode on the way to the wreck of the Titanic last year,

Another mission specialist who worked with the company that owned the Titan submersible that imploded last year while on its way to the Titanic wreckage is testifying before a U.S. Coast Guard investigatory panel Friday.

OceanGate’s rival warned Stockton Rush about submersible’s viewport before doomed dive - A former OceanGate contractor said Titan sub parts looked ‘thrown together’