Titan sub tragedy: ‘You are going to kill someone', ex-employee’s letter to CEO emerges

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The Ominous details regarding the safety of the onboard passengers of ill-fated Titan submersible that killed all five including OceanGate Expeditions CEO are emerging weeks after the tragedy that took place near the Titanic wreckage in the North Atlantic Ocean. The New Yorker has published an email of a former employee of OceanGate Expeditions which he wrote to ex-associate years ago with concerns about the potential failings of the submersible and an ominous warning about its CEO Stockton Rush about his reckless pursuit of personal glory.  “I don’t want to be seen as a Tattle tale but I’m so worried he kills himself and others in the quest to boost his ego," David Lochridge wrote about OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, reported CNN.

The company hosted $250,000-a-ticket tourist excursions to the 111-year-old remains of the Titanic. The services of David Lochridge, who served as OceanGate's director of marine operations until 2018, was terminated after raising concerns about the safety and testing of the ill-fated submersible throughout its construction process.

According to the leaked emails, Lochridge expressed his apprehensions that CEO Rush's relentless pursuit of personal ambition would result in endangering himself and his colleagues aboard the submersible.  Allegedly, these warnings were disregarded despite being delivered directly from the factory floor. “I would consider myself pretty ballsy when it comes to doing things that are dangerous, but that sub is an accident waiting to happen," Lochridge wrote in the email to Rob McCallum, a project associate who disassociated over concerns not to class the vehicle by a marine-certification agency, the CNN reported citing The New Yorker report.