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CEO of Titanic sub joked ‘what could go wrong’ before disaster, new documentary reveals

Source: OceanGate

The CEO of the company that launched the doomed Titan submersible trip to the wreckage of the Titanic joked “What could go wrong?” just weeks before the disaster, a new documentary has revealed.

OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush made the chilling remark during an interview with St John’s Radio in Canada just a few weeks before one of his submarines imploded in the ocean in June 2023.

The accident killed Rush, along with French diver Paul-Henri Nargeolet,

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