Nightmare Trip Claims 5 Lives: Deadly Titantic Dive.

That same year, OceanGate employee-turned-whistleblower David Lochridge joined more than 30 industry leaders to urge Rush to have the I Titan i tested and certified, saying in a letter that OceanGate's "experimental approach" could lead to "catastrophic" consequences. "Gliding over the I Titanic i , descending to the grand staircase and seeing a crystal chandelier still hanging is a thing of immense beauty and tragedy", says explorer Fred Hagen, a 2022 I Titan i passenger. OceanGate Expeditions cofounder and CEO Richard Stockton Rush III, 61, had invited passengers to experience the rarest of adventures: traveling down into the depths of the North Atlantic Ocean in the I Titan, i the 22-ft. submersible he built, to view the corroding grandeur of the ill-fated luxury liner in its watery grave. [Extracted from the article]