Rush, who is 61, said he believes deeply that the sea, rather than the sky, offers humanity the best shot at survival when the Earth’s surface becomes uninhabitable. A seat on that eight-day mission costs $250,000 per person. OceanGate currently operates three submersibles for conducting research, film production, and “exploration travel,” including tours of the site of the Titanic more than 13,000 feet below the ocean’s surface. Rush founded OceanGate in 2009, with a stated mission of “increasing access to the deep ocean through innovation.”Īs CEO, Rush oversees the Everett, Washington-based company’s “financial and engineering strategies” and provides a “vision for development” of crewed submersibles, according to his bio. I wanted to be Captain Kirk on the Enterprise. “I didn’t want to go up into space as a tourist. “I had this epiphany that this was not at all what I wanted to do,” Rush told the magazine. But in 2004, he told Smithsonian, the dream shifted after Richard Branson launched the first commercial aircraft into space. He nursed his space travel dream for years, imagining he would join a commercial flight as a tourist. He obtained an MBA from UC Berkeley in 1989, according to his company bio. Rush, who graduated from Princeton in 1984 with a degree in aerospace engineering, has said that he never really grew out of his childhood dream of wanting to be an astronaut, but his eyesight wasn’t good enough, according to an interview he gave Smithsonian Magazine in 2019.Īfter college, he moved to Seattle to work for the McDonnell Douglas Corporation as a flight test engineer on the F-15 program. If the Titan is still intact, the US Coast Guard officials estimated Wednesday afternoon that the vessel may have less than a day’s worth of oxygen left. I think I’ve broken them with logic and good engineering behind me.” “And I’ve broken some rules to make this. “I think it was General MacArthur who said you’re remembered for the rules you break,” Rush said in a video interview with Mexican YouTuber Alan Estrada last year. In another interview, Stockton boasted that he’d “broken some rules” in his career.
“I mean, if you just want to be safe, don’t get out of bed. “At some point, safety just is pure waste,” Stockton told journalist David Pogue in an interview last year. Rush has approached his dream of deep-sea exploration with child-like verve and an antipathy toward regulations - a pattern that has come into sharp relief since Sunday night, when his vessel, the Titan, went missing. Stockton Rush, the CEO of OceanGate and one of five people on the submersible missing in the North Atlantic, has cultivated a reputation as a kind of modern-day Jacques Cousteau - a nature lover, adventurer and visionary.
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