OceanGate CEO: You're remembered for the rules you break

On Wednesday, we reported that OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush had previously dismissed safety concerns regarding the Titan submersible, saying, “You know, there’s a limit. At some point safety just is pure waste. I mean if you just want to be safe, don’t get out of bed. Don’t get in your car. Don’t do anything. At some point, you’re going to take some risk, and it really is a risk/reward question. I think I can do this just as safely by breaking the rules.” We now know that he could not, in fact, do it safely, but new information reveals that he was even more reckless than previously known.

CBS reports that in a video interview from 2021, Rush told vlogger Alan Estrada, “I’d like to be remembered as an innovator. I think it was General [Douglas] MacArthur who said, ‘You’re remembered for the rules you break. And I’ve broken some rules to make this. I think I’ve broken them with logic and good engineering behind me.”

[The whole thing makes me sick. Hubris writ large. ~ Beege]