OceanGate listed job for sub pilot while Titanic tourist submarine was missing
The owners of the destroyed Titanic submarine have come under fire once again as it carried a listing for a job posting for a new pilot while the crew was missing.
Ocean submersible Titan was lost close to the wreck of the Titanic, along with the company founder and CEO Stockton Rush and four paying tourists.
During days of searching that met an end on Thursday - Titan went missing on Sunday - the company ran a job advert for a new submersible pilot and marine technician.
Advertising an "excellent opportunity for a high-energy professional", the listing appears to have been live from Monday to Thursday, but it is unclear when it was first published on the website.
The listing said: "Submersible Pilot/Marine Technician to join the team ... looking for someone to "manage and operate our fleet of manned submersibles and support vessels."
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OceanGate is under scrutiny regarding some of Rush's previous comments over the safety of its submersibles.
The job listing (OceanGate)In a re-surfaced podcast with CBS, Rush talked about the submersible vessel, claiming safety is a "pure waste".
In the November 2022 interview, he said: "You know, at some point, safety is just a 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 while breaking the rules," he added 17 minutes into the episode.
Emails show that repeated warnings regarding the safety of Titan were allegedly ignored by Rush.
Rob McCallum, a former consultant for OceanGate, was threatened with legal action by Ocean Gate's lawyer after he said the sub was a risk until it had been classified by an independent body.
Titan lost contact with its surface ship on Sunday (Xinhua/REX/Shutterstock)The New York Times has also published a letter to Rush written in 2018 that warned of “catastrophic” problems with Titan’s development.
The Marine Technology Society said there was “concern regarding the development of Titan and the planned Titanic expeditions”.
In its letter, the organisation wrote: "Your marketing material advertises that the TITAN design will meet or exceed the DNV-GL safety standards, yet it does not appear that OceanGate has the intention of following DNV-GL class rules."
The DNV-GL, now DNV, is an accredited classification society that includes certification on submersibles in its remit.
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Stockton Rush (OceanGate Expeditions/AFP via Ge)It comes after Guillermo Sohnlein, co-founder of OceanGate Expeditions, told the same programme that the Titan had undergone 14 years of "rigorous" and "robust" checks during development.
Sohnlein described regulations surrounding visits to the Titanic wreckage as “tricky to navigate” after it was confirmed on Thursday that debris from the Titan deep-sea vessel had been found.
He told Times Radio he and his co-founder Mr Rush were committed to safety during expeditions.
Sohnlein said: “He was extremely committed to safety. He was also extremely diligent about managing risks, and was very keenly aware of the dangers of operating in a deep ocean environment."
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