Stockton Rush wore a hard-hat and stood next to one of his submersible crafts last year full of enthusiasm as he told a bunch of students about the thrills and perils of being a deep-sea explorer."The key element in any expedition is you got to be thinking, what could go wrong? What can I do to mitigate that risk," Rush told the students via a live web stream prior to one of his voyages. Despite such planning, he conceded, "something always bites you that you didn't expect."Rush, the CEO of OceanGate and the pilot of the ill-fated Titan submersible that imploded this week diving to the Titanic wreckage, understood the dangers of his endeavours.
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