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Stockton Rush is the CEO and founder of OceanGate Inc, the company running the expedition. Rush—whom Smithsonian magazine once called a “daredevil inventor”—has a BSE in Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University and an MBA from the U.C. Berkeley Haas School of Business, and became the youngest jet transport-rated pilot in the world in 1981, at age 19.
Rush served as a flight test engineer for the McDonnell Douglas Corporation, briefly working at Edwards Air Force Base on the anti-satellite missile program, before pivoting to smaller businesses, according to a bio on the OceanGate website. He served on the board of directors for a sonar-system manufacturing company and as chairman of a wireless remote-control device manufacturer.
Rush founded OceanGate in 2009, which claims to have completed over 14 expeditions and over 200 dives in the Pacific, Atlantic, and Gulf of Mexico. The company started offering its $250,000 trips to the Titanic wreckage in 2021.
In the Smithsonian piece, Rush bemoaned the safety regulations around the submarine industry, saying, “It’s obscenely safe because they have all these regulations. But it also hasn’t innovated or grown—because they have all these regulations.”
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