What to know about OceanGate, the company behind the missing Titanic submersible

OceanGate, founded in 2009, offers tourists the opportunity to travel on submersibles into the ocean's depths for a closeup look at shipwrecks and underwater canyons. A spot on one of the trips can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Decades earlier, in the 1980s, Rush became the world's youngest jet transport rated pilot, at age 19, the OceanGate website. In the ensuing years, he earned a bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering from Princeton University and an M.B.A. from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.

Rush said he launched OceanGate after an epiphany that the deep sea offered a sense of discovery he once thought only attainable for astronauts, according to an"I had a realization in my early 40s that what I really wanted to be was an explorer," RushStockton Rush, CEO of OceanGate exhibitions, poses at Times Square in New York, April 12, 2017.

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