Titan sub hearings live: Haunting new photos show mangled wreckage of OceanGate vessel after it imploded
The hearings into the Titan submersible disaster resumed today after a friend of the OceanGate CEO who said the boss “knew it was going to end like this” testified yesterday.
Today’s hearing featured testimony from Dr. Don Kramer, National Transportation Safety Board engineer, who analyzed photos of the Titan sub wreckage for the investigative board. Additional specialists are slated to testify today.
Yesterday’s hearing featured Karl Stanley, the owner of a diving expedition company in Honduras and a close friend of Stockton Rush. He went on the doomed submersible with his friend in April 2019.
The Titan sub imploded last June, killing all five people on board, including Rush.
In a previous interview after the disaster, Stanley said: “[Rush] definitely knew it was going to end like this. He quite literally and figuratively went out with the biggest bang in human history that you could go out with.”
Yesterday Stanley testified hearing cracking noises on the submersible and that he could pinpoint where they were coming from. He told the board that Rush was “scared” during the 2019 dive.
“It was unnerving and then when it kept happening,” Stanley testified, referring to the noises.
“It’s also a clue to me about Stockton’s psychology…he was scared,” he added.
