Titanic tourist sub goes missing in Atlantic Ocean, June 2023 #4

[LinasK]

He almost sounds mentally unbalanced - not that takes any culpability from him.

It's been said that some CEO's are sociopaths.

 

[MrsAddick]

It's been said that some CEO's are sociopaths.

Yes, Jon Ronson’s book ‘The Psychopath Test’ is a good read. Having worked closely with several CEOs, I tend to agree…

IMO Stockton was so chock full of hubris, and singularly goal-orientated, that the end would always justify the means.
Not suicidal at all….but a raging narcissist who truly believed he was smarter than everyone else i.e. so intrinsically superior that his ‘gut-feel’ would override any contrary evidence

 

[Bekind89]

Yes, Jon Ronson’s book ‘The Psychopath Test’ is a good read. Having worked closely with several CEOs, I tend to agree…

IMO Stockton was so chock full of hubris, and singularly goal-orientated, that the end would always justify the means.
Not suicidal at all….but a raging narcissist who truly believed he was smarter than everyone else i.e. so intrinsically superior that his ‘gut-feel’ would override any contrary evidence

Can't help but wonder what his last thoughts were, if he had time to have any.

 

[lonetraveler]

Can't help but wonder what his last thoughts were, if he had time to have any.

Any last thoughts? I would guess that he was pissed that someone else screwed it up.

 

[ch_13]

I will never understand why he would not only take innocent passengers on this dangerous tin can, but did he not fear for himself?
It seems almost suicidal. Jmo

Some people just have a very high level of risk tolerance. Some occupations/activities require one to take one's life in one's own hands: test pilot, race car driver, mountain climber, commercial diver, etc.

That's not the issue. The problem with Rush is that he minimized the risks. Taking passengers underwater in an untested and unregulated hull was putting lives in jeopardy. But if he admitted the danger then he'd have to accept that the company he'd spent the last fifteen years building was fatally flawed.

 

[sds71]

“Besides it being a wreck of historical significance, the fact that it lies at such great depth makes it fascinating to visit,” Patrick Lahey, CEO of Triton Submarines, who is in the midst of building a new commercially available submersible that could handle such a journey, told The Post

“Titanic is a wreck that’s covered in marine life and soft coral. People want to go there for the same reason that they want to climb Mount Everest.”


Triton’s planned $20 million sub will be held to a much higher standard. Lahey has estimated it will be finished by next year.

“I’m very excited to be building this and to change the narrative,” he said.

Titanic wreck to be visited by another billionaire — two years after Oceangate disaster killed 5

Despite a submarine of tourists imploding at the site of the Titanic wreck, it remains a fascination for undersea explorers.

nypost.com