![]() The delay is a setback for one of the most eagerly-anticipated U.S. ![]() ![]() All five people on board, including Rush, were declared dead.FILE PHOTO: A girl adds a face mask to her character on the game 'Roblox' at her home in Manchester, as the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) continues, Manchester, Britain, April 5, 2020. Four days later, the Coast Guard announced pieces of the sub had been discovered, suggesting the Titan had catastrophically imploded. On June 18, less than two hours into a dive to the Titanic, the Titan submersible lost communication with its surface ship and went missing, kicking off a major search and rescue mission. The only question in my mind is will it fail catastrophically or not," Stanley said in an email to Rush. "I think that hull has a defect near that flange, that will only get worse. Rush was emailing his friend Karl Stanley, an expert in submersibles who had expressed serious concerns to him about the integrity of the Titan after hearing cracking noises on a dive in the Bahamas that year. Stockton Rush, the CEO of OceanGate who died last week when his Titan submersible catastrophically imploded on a dive to the Titanic shipwreck, told a friend in 2019 he would shut down his company before operating an unsafe vessel, according to emails obtained by Insider. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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