Earlier in the week, former OceanGate operations director David Lochridge said he frequently clashed with Rush and felt the company was committed only to making money. “The whole idea behind the company was to make money,” Lochridge testified.

The Titan submersible imploded in June 2023, tragically killing all five passengers inside. Here’s everything revealed so far about the incident in hearings that began on Sept. 16.

A former OceanGate scientific director said the Titan submersible suffered a malfunction six days before imploding in June 2023, killing all five people on board.

OceanGate's Titan sub briefly became tangled up in the Titanic during a 2022 dive, according to a mission specialist who was on the dive.

Passenger on a previous Titan submersible dive testified his mission was aborted underwater due to apparent malfunction

A paid passenger on an expedition to the Titanic with the company that owned the Titan submersible testified before a U.S. Coast Guard investigatory panel that the vessel was unsafe. (AP Video produced by Rodrique Ngowi.

David Lochridge, OceanGate’s former director of operations, testified of unsafe practices, saying, ‘There was very little in the way of science’