In a 300-plus page last report launched today, the United States Coast Guard examined the 2023 Titan sub implosion from every imaginable angle and concerned a clear conclusion: OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush was an unsafe and deeply undesirable manager.

His business utilized “intimidation tactics” to avoid regulative examination, it was a “toxic” work environment, and its security culture was “critically flawed.” The Titan itself was “undocumented, unregistered, non-certificated, [and] unclassed.” When it comes to Rush, he handled to “completely ignore vital inspections, data analyses, and preventative maintenance procedures.” The outcome was a “catastrophic event” that took place when 4,930 pounds per square inch of water pressure broke the sub open and crushed its 5 residents throughout a dive to the Titanic wreckage website.

Had Rush in some way made it through, the report states, he would have been referred for prosecution.

Tossing the controller

One little story about a computer game controller reveals what Rush resembled to work for. You might keep in mind Rush from a notorious 2022 CBS Sunday Morning section, where Rush revealed reporter David Pogue around the Titan sub. “We run the whole thing with this game controller,” Rush stated, holding up a Logitech F710 controller with 3D-printed thumbstick extensions. Pogue laughed, stating, “Come on!” as he covered his confront with his hand.

The video game controller had actually been utilized in OceanGate subs for several years by that point; a 2014 video revealed one being utilized to manage the business’s earlier Cyclops I submersible. In 2016, OceanGate took the Cyclops I to dive the wreck of the Andrea Doria beyond Nantucket, Massachusetts. (Seinfeld fans will bear in mind that a whole episode is taken up with George’s mission to get a home that will go to an Andrea Doria survivor.)

The OceanGate group invested 2 days at the website, running 2D and 3D scans of the sunken ship, till Rush got the Cyclops I “stuck under the bow of the Andrea Doria wreckage”– and he could not get the sub complimentary. According to the report, Rush then “experienced a ‘meltdown’ and refused to let [the assistant pilot] assist in resolving the situation. When a mission specialist suggested that Mr. Rush hand over the controller to the assistant pilot, the assistant pilot reported that the controller was thrown at him. Upon obtaining the controller, the assistant pilot was able to free the Cyclops I from the wreckage.”