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July 4, 2023 - Lionel Nation
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OceanGate CEO Used College Interns to Design Titan’s Electrical System
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Just when you think you've heard everything, just when you think you can't hear anything new about the doomed Titan sub, get ready for this.
We now find out that the CEO of Stockton Rush...
Got college interns to work in the electrical system.
Now, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
It gets this tale, this horrible tale.
And remember this.
This isn't funny.
This isn't quirky.
This is beyond tragic.
The story and the facts are unraveling.
And they are, to use the...
All too cited word today.
Unbelievable.
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Just when I think, okay, this is the last story.
This is the last story we're going to hear about.
Oh, no, no.
It gets even more unbelievable.
The New York Post today, among others, and the New Yorker are all reporting that the Ocean Gate founder and the, let's face it, now Reckless, CEO Stockton Rush basically hired college interns to design.
Interns?
Do you hire an intern?
In any event, hired college interns to design the electrical systems for the now doomed and ill-fated Titan submersible that killed him and four other people.
Now, Stockton Rush, you know, who has been, well, it's been reported to have reportedly and allegedly ignored safety warning after safety warning while charging wealthy tourists a quarter of a million dollars for dives to the Titanic shipwreck,
of which, I'm sorry, I don't get, but...
It's reported he hired students from Washington State University to work on critical systems.
This is according to the New Yorker, the New York Post.
And according to the magazine, quote, the whole electrical system, that was our design.
We implemented it and it works.
This is according to a former intern.
Furthermore, it's quoted, we are on the precipice of making history.
And all of our systems are going down to the Titanic.
It is an awesome feeling.
Avoid the tragic and horrible puns.
Meanwhile, this is...
Meanwhile, Ocean Gate's former director of marine operations and the chief pilot is reporting that the Titan was a lemon.
And not safe to dive in 2018.
This is also reported.
Now, this is incredible.
The ex-student, this is from the school paper, his school paper was reported, but the ex-student, Mark Walsh, had apparently been the officer or the treasurer of the school's Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Club when The Ocean Gate Director of Engineering,
a fellow by the name of Tony Nissen, described some of the company's challenges and the like.
Walsh said that he and his fellow students volunteered.
And they said, okay, you're hired.
And this fellow Walsh graduated in 2017 with a degree and then joined Ocean Gate full-time.
As the head of the electrical engineering department.
Now listen to this.
This is still incredible.
Quote, if electrons flow through it, I'm in charge of it, he said.
He told rather the Washington State University paper with a laugh, adding that he was leading a team of five, including Nissan and two WSU interns.
He recommended senior Doug Yamamoto because of his software engineering experience.
By the way, this isn't to in any way impute blame, per se, but it just goes to show you how this is developing.
And I'm telling you, you're going to be seeing more and more.
There is one particular photo.
I think you've seen this.
And it's Stockton Rush in front of the game.
I don't want to say Game Boy.
I said a Game Boy.
But this game toggle switch.
Now this is just...
Again, I don't want to sound ghoulish.
Because that's what this sounds like.
There's this pile on here.
But these Washington State University people, I'm sure they're great.
They must feel awful.
They may have had absolutely nothing to do.
With any of this.
And it says here, on June 22nd, Washington State University told the local outlet, the Everett Herald, that it does not have an alliance with Ocean Gate.
Quote, we are aware that some of our graduates have worked at Ocean Gate.
To our knowledge, one graduate currently works there.
We are not privy to what OceanGate projects WSU Everett alumni have been involved in or what their roles may have been outside of publicly available information.
And it appears that OceanGate apparently used interns from Everett County College's Ocean Research College Academy, but the school stopped offering apparently these internships with the company.
So now you're going to be seeing...
Obviously, distancing and the like.
Now, you can read on, you can kind of gather what's going on, and you can ask yourself, are these, in and of themselves, indications, indicia, proof of some kind of flagrant, criminal, whatever?
The answer is not necessarily.
However, when you stitch together this patchwork series of facts, And you see what is here.
And you just stitch them.
You take this plus this.
And by the way, there's more.
I've got other videos coming of other latest reports.
You see what appears to be this pastiche, this mosaic of negligence and questionable activity.
Imagine And I know this is a submersible.
And by the way, they were successful before and it's not like...
It makes you wonder how many other not submersibles but craft are likewise perhaps so ostensibly shoddily constructed.
but it makes you wonder, my God!
What?
What?
And wait until the fingers start to fly.
Wait until this story starts to develop.
And wait until people start to say, well, did you know this?
And did you know this?
And then insurance carriers, if there are such a thing, they're going to say, now wait a minute, hold it.
And then there's going to be people who say, I don't know if there's any kind of, it seems like it's a privately held corporation, but...
You're going to see litigation upon litigation.
And remember, we're talking about billionaires being lost, billionaires, and more money and wealth that just, well, not that the wealth disappeared, it transferred.
And when wealth is transferred, blame is going to be apportioned, and blame is going to be leveled.
And let's see what this is.
Now remember, just putting this together, remember, each individual stitch of this, Patch of this, each tile of this mosaic points to another little aspect, another focus of the putative and alleged negligence.
It's incredible.
There's just so many others.
In fact, I'm going to put...
I'm going to link this wonderful New York Post article just to give you an idea.
Listen to what other people are saying about it was a lemon and the designs.
Oh my God!
How did this happen?
And people always would think, but Stockton Rush did this himself.
He put his life, his own life, In harm's way.
When you're getting a quarter of a million a pop, and it's worked before, and you enjoy a certain degree of reputation as being a daredevil, stranger things have happened.
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