McCoy, a former OceanGate employee, listens to questions from the investigative board during the final day of the Coast Guard investigatory hearing on the causes of the implosion of an experimental submersible headed for the wreck of the Titanic, Friday, Sept. 27, 2024, in North Charleston, S.C. — AP
It happened in 2017 at the Scuttlebutt Family Pub down by the docks in Everett, Washington, just steps from where OceanGate was building a new kind of undersea craft. The low-cost submersible was to be so large and strong that it could take five people down miles to see the Titanic up close.
At the pub, Stockton Rush, the company’s CEO, was having lunch with a new employee who had raised questions about the dives’ skirting rules meant to improve safety at sea.
