Five people - OceanGate Inc. CEO Stockton Rush, British billionaire Hamish Harding, French mariner Paul-Henri Nargeolet, and Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son Sulaiman - boarded the Titan vessel on June 18 to see the Titanic wreck.
The company which owned Titan provided an eight-word update on its website on Thursday, almost three weeks since the tragedy which made global headlines. OceanGate was still promoting its Titanic voyages despite announcing it had ceased exploration and commercial operations. Picture: David Ryder/Getty Images via AFP
"And you know, I've broken some rules to make this. I think I've broken them with logic and good engineering behind me.He is understood to be talking about the risk of mixing the two materials, which could cause galvanic corrosion due to its different electrochemical properties.