“A LOT of Red Flags” | Friend of OceanGate Owner Gives Bombshell Testimony on Titan Submarine 

This dude is clearly traumatized by the experience holy heck.

His handing over the controls, so others could descend, was his way of saying he was ready to die but he did not want to pull the trigger himself.

Mission specialists...😁 It was a Micky mouse show..

If I were piloting or a passenger in a submersible, I wouldn't want to hear any noise coming from the pressurized cabin.

Karl Stanley is probably the only person on earth that hates Stockton Rush more than James Cameron does

Very careless and selfish of Stockton Rush.

Imagine having the memory of being down there and making it back.

Man I wish RU-vid would normalize its audio levels. One video can barely hear. Next one starts and I'm scrambling for the volume button.

Craziness. "Its making cracking noises.. but lets go deeper!" 🤪🤪

I don't even stand for wrinkles and cracking in my gift wrapping

this is about a Psycho Path - Not "technology" and the Sheeple following him

This guy is searing with anger. And listening to his testimony, I completely understand. I had no idea it was THAT noisy.

I wouldn't of put that thing in a backyard pool.

They casually toss this word "implosion" around fully aware of this all too real risk. This isn't just thrill seeking, it is something more, I find it a bit disturbing when I listen to these people.

This man sounds so upset.. And rightly so.

I think that submersible was 'RUSHED' to productions.

The Hunley had more reliable engineering than Titian.

Stockton built the perfect millionaire murder machine

They where not mission specialists. They where paying customers going on a thrill seeking trip. This nonsense about mission specialists is just another way they subverted law to avoid responsibility.

If I was 2 Miles deep and heard cracking I'd be like hell no we are going back up.

this sounds more like a podcast than a testimony. I appreciate the honesty

This guy is legit. He’s been in the submersible game for a long long time

This story gets crazier by the day. Stockton rented an entire resort in the Bahamas to attract billionaires and give the outward appearance that he was successful and able to give a high value experience. Then he’s gluing inferior materials with adhesive. He reminds me of neighbors I had. They lived in an old basement with tar paper on the roof. They also weren’t very bright. Finally they got the materials to put a shell of a house on top of the basement. It gave the outward appearance that they lived in a house. Unfortunately they never paid the charge on the materials so they could never finish off the inside. Then they went on living in the basement while the half finished shell deteriorated. They had an excuse. They didn’t have much money and they were poor managers. Stockton rush was just an overprivileged arrogant blowhard who did experiments with other peoples lives

There's so many freakin bombshells about this clusterfk that the absence of a bombshell would actually be a bombshell.

All of the money wasted bringing the Titan up and these proceedings all because of a DUMB 💩 is ridiculous!!!!!

Karl Stanley is very knowledgeable on all this. Has a very successful fleet of subs himself

Was doomed the second they called it “OceanGATE”

It's a miracle the thing ever made it to the titanic on any dives. Holy cow, only 1200 ft depth and all these issues already. Nevermind over 12000 ft.

More strucural integrity in a cardboard box, then what was in that submersable. Poor souls on board, they would have been safer in a kinder egg.

They CHOSE to take a tourist visit to say "woo, we have seen the Titanic". Now they are there permanently. 👎

Having Helen Keller drive you around is a more sound idea than this ridiculousness. Holding your breath and swimming to titanic would have been safer.

You can tell that so many people at these testimonies are freakin' traumatized by not just the implosion, but by all the BS that happened before it.

I wonder if SR wanted to go down in infamy.

It seems that the company were financing sea trials by charging customers to take part in those trials.

i have been fascinated with this story since the disaster happened. There were so many warnings about the titan but he still went ahead. It sounds like the fatal flaw was the glue seal in the front. RIP to the victims of Rush's folly

This definitely should not have happened.. There were people who knew exactly how dangerous this thing was. Honestly, I think somebody should've sabotaged it to the point where they couldn't use it or destroyed it or something.. I know that sounds crazy but those people did not fully understand how poorly designed it was, and how badly it was maintained. The very people who should've saved their lives, ushered them into oblivion. I don't know about you, but that's very disturbing to me. Rest in peace to all the passengers and God be with their families.

No way I would have been in this "Lada" of the seas !!! At least , I go to Titanic in a 6000 meters certified sub AND with James Cameron + Robert Ballard besides me , other than that I would stay away !!

I understand the rationale of trying to keep questions to a specific scope for the purpose of doing the investigation the way the Coast Guard wants to do it, but by the same token I'd like them to also shut up and let the guy tell his story, from his perspective, even if that means the interview needs to go long or they need to do a separate interview immediately after or before. This may be the only time he speaks in public about this, especially with a professional interviewer instead of a news site with a bias or an unprofessional RU-vidr who pays him a couple or grand for some short clips on a web cam.

Karl Stanley ❤❤❤❤❤

The guy is still shaky after so many years.... No need to guess, it was the worst time of his life and that was before the lightning strike, the stay on the pier out in the elements for month, the multiple technical issues occurring during the following dives........ And he wrote about it at the time... No one listen....

Those noises were death missing with his scythe.

‘Hell no I want to back to the surface’. Exactly! Imagine the poor young lad.

Stockton Rush seems like he was the boss, what he said goes, and the people who worked for him were too afraid to call him out and say it wasn’t right or safe. A bunch of yes men that were supposed to be experts just satisfying the whim of a madman.

As a trained engineer, as far as i know Stockton Rush was only ever a partially-trained engineer. Not a registered Professional Engineer. It requires a lot more than an undergraduate degree to become a P.E.

"Has that 'surfaced' at all"? ...unfortunate term to use😂

It was greed and ego that killed Rush

I don't know if anyone thought of this and I am far from a scientist or physicist or even an engineer. I was an a/c technician for many years. I ran into a problem with air conditioning coils. The copper would leak,not at a mechanical or welded joint ,but the copper itself. The engineers came up with a name for it, "Ant Farming" . The copper, by expansion and contracting under pressure would cause fractures at a microscopic level. Without pressure the leaks were undetectable by normal means. If this was happening to the carbon fiber,this could explain why the sub,after dropping its weights and sled, could not surface. They sub lost positive buoyancy due to water saturating the carbon fibers at almost 6000 psi. I would imagine that eventually, the water would start to cut anything in its path and just get worse over time. I have no idea if this makes any sense. Just thought I would spit ball it out there.

What sort of a crap name is Stockton anyway?

Like this guy said, these people were just thrill seeking risk takers, but they did not know the FULL risk! Well, nobody questioned why carbon fiber isn't used for planes? lol. Clearly its a terrible material for any sort of compression loading.

If one passenger panicked, it wouldn't be, "Okay, we'll turn around and go back up." "Thanks, captain Stockton." I think you'd have everyone holding that panicked person down. Panic won't be sweating your balls off. It will be hyperventilation, and all hell breaks loose in such small confinement. I was in a swimming pool in water lower than my chest. I had a kid on my shoulders, he suddenly panicked, grabbed me tight around the throat and took both of us down under. I got disoriented and didn't know which way was up with a kid still strangling me.

This dude is looking a murder charge straight in the eye. Props to everyone that told Stockton that the goober "design" he'd whacked together was bs straight to his face.

When a company calls customers "mission specialists" ... RUN.

Cracking is flexing, how can flexing, be a good thing... carbon fiber is not a material that is designed to flex and return to original shape, unless engineered to do so. Clearly the pressure hull was not designed with flexible intent, or it would have never worked at all. Anyone that knows anything about carbon fiber and how it is created, knows this was a horrible idea! And the extensive cracking was not seen as warning?

Hear me out. Netflix or HBO needs to make this a movie or multi part series with Bill Hader as Stockton Rush. Watch Bill do an Al Pacino impression. This will be gold!!!

No one needs to go down to "see" the Titanic. Anyone who attempts is simply stupid. There is no need to do anything so recklessly dumb.

Rush was a combination of hubris and ignorance. Like some kind of wanna be Steve Jobs of submarines he felt he was some kind of maverick genius. His arrogance would allow him to rationalize any problems or concerns as an attack on his image of himself as a “innovator.”

05:30 Could and should have been done WITHOUT human passengers on board. I mean, helloooo… I’m not an engineer but I know a safety risk when I see one. Not the fault of this particular gentleman, though.

I still don’t understand how he convinced the billionaires to go down in that death trap

Here is how something this dangerous should work.If an outsider liek myself took 5 minutes of research to think "not a chance in hell" would I go down to ANY depth in that thing the people with actual knowledge SHOULD be saying NO WAY this needs a LOT more testing and safety measures. What I gathered from all the OTHER employees and friends etc etc is that Stockton was loaded in money so everyone was afraid to say anything negative even though they SHOULD be saying something. Me personally I don't let money influence anything I do I would not be afraid to tell Stockton to his face that his ide was pure stupidity. When this dude is talking here in this video he is talking about trusting Stockton and not doubting him but he should have his own common sense and apparently chose to not use any common sense.

Pure insanity. I honestly think the guy was wanting to martyr himself as a "pioneer" of exploration. That's how he saw it should he die. Sickening.

Let me get this straight, scary crazy loud noises were heard from the titan durring the test dives with the Titan in the Bahamas? April 2019... was it the same titan submersible that imploded last year?

His handing over the controls is a psychological trick to try to get everyone on his side. Basically, we're all working together as a team, we're all in on this as one. It also is a show of confidence to the "mission specialists", implying that driving this sub is so easy and foolproof that anyone can do it and Stockton himself wasn't worried at all. The root of the issue is of course the hull cracking and breaking under the stress of each dive. It caused the scary noises and it ultimately caused the death of everyone on board.

How hard is to understand that a rope can pull heavy loads, but it is not able to push them? An engineer must understand the difference between tensile and compression material resistance.

I feel like the accompanying article should be about the submarine, and not the cruise ship...

Shocking. Yeah if I started hearing cracking noises I would have suggested an abort lol

All these witnesses seem to be holding back and tempering their testimony. Because they were all involved.

I think we think scientists and engineers are "it!", but what happens when they are not? When their mental capacities change? Perhaps mental health?

He’s not an idiot? Well if he wasn’t, he would still be here today.

Darwin Award ,RIP ,Stockton

Trained engineer,not an idiot ,,both proved wrong

Come on man look at the vessel! This guy questioning him infuriates me. Just stop. These people questioning him are about as bright as Oceangate.

Why does money make people dumb. Safety is number 1. He even says he cut corners! So so sorry for the family's that lost loved ones. We would all love to see the beautiful Titanic but we're not fish so we're stuck with pics.

How much money did Stockton save, by not creating a titanium shell in the first instance? I have no clue what the cost differential was; did he not want one or two vessels that could do two hundred safe dives?

Rush was a narcissist and eager to be remembered as an innovator. Well, Stockton you will certainly be remembered that’s for sure - for all the wrong reasons

only sulumans mother should be allowed to sue,the rest are as guilty as stockton....

Cracking stuff.

The Titanic wreck site should be designated off limits to all submersibles, much like the Edmund Fitzgerald. We already know everything about the wreck site, everything else is just morbid.

As James Cameron said People should have been more vocal. Lives may have been saved.

Karl is the best witness if we want to get to the real cause of the problem. the psycology of the 'Leader' that caused the tragedy. Stockton was a spoilt brat who never heard the word NO!

It’s one thing to hear the noises on descent but to hear louder ones coming back up?😳 To completely ignore that is beyond stupid. That’s a clear sign that the crushing damage was even tearing itself apart further as the pressure subsided. I liken it to stepping on gum on hot pavement. It will squish under the pressure but the real damage happens trying to lift your foot off the pavement. Same principle here😡

Sounds like Rush was an adrenaline junkie with no sense of right or wrong.

From pure legal perspective, this testimony can be easily disregarded by an experienced attorney. He is all over the place while giving the testimony. I understand his emotion and frustration, but that’s not how you testify as a key witness.

Really interesting, and claryfying the Stokton's way of manage the things

I always wondered if they have a refund policy if the dive didn't happen or couldn't reach Titanic during the dive.

This is what happens when you say yes to your friends bc you dont want to crush their dreams but u should have raised the evident flags to protect them.

Stockton askes you, at depth, do you want to e good news or the bad? You know one is the refund lol

Sleeping in a hammock and having meals together are very useful informations

Hard to believe. Did Stockton Rush just lack a fear response? Was he so blinded by the money or the ego feed of doing something novel?

Hmmm! Interesting! This prior trip had been the test voyage for Titan! This friend of Rush probably knew that the basic technology was flawed - it proved that the design was unsound! Carbon Fibre is unsuitable except in shallow depth and shallow water exploration. Possibly it is clear that Stockton Rush had no intention to stop these dives. If that hull had split at the shallow depths. It might have stopped him cold and forced him to redesign.

Here wash the outside of Titan with a scrub brush and a cloth: now that makes u a mission specialist!!

This guy understood that the Titan wasn't safe - but he doesn't base his email objections to Rush on the possibility that everyone might die - he bases them on the possibility that they might demand refunds! What a weird guy. And for some reason he can never finish a sentence. He gets halfway through every sentence and then abandons it and starts a new one and then abandons that one halfway through and starts another. He isn't pure evil like Rush but he definitely has a screw loose somewhere.

These questions are stupid he told you he heard the hill cracking. What do you mean how can you tell?

Does anyone in the world not know what the Titanic sinking was?

The NTSB panel struggle to follow a long answer.

mission specialist sounds better than mass grave tourist.

Peers and spuse shoudl be inquired about Stocton suicide tendencies.

More structural integrity in a cardbord box, then what was in the Titan submersable. Poor souls on board, the would have been safer kinder egg.

Chillin in marsh harbor. Can’t even begin to imagine what that cost

It was on purpose. This man right here tells you that.

This guy isn't too bright