Stockton Rush made a chilling joke before the disaster (Picture: AP)
The boss of the doomed Titan submarine made an eerie joke just weeks before the disaster killed all five people on board in milliseconds.
Stockton Rush was the CEO of Oceangate, the company in charge of the expedition to the Titanic wreck in June 2023.
Recording of a radio interview given to St John’s Radio in Canada just weeks before the doomed trip has recently re-emerged.
During the interview, Rush joked: ‘What could go wrong?’
He explained the reasoning for choosing June to venture to the wreck: ‘So with the Polar Prince [the vessel that carried the submarine out to sea], that ice capability we thought, let’s move the mission a little earlier this year.
‘We specifically designed the submersible for this mission.’
The Titan sub disaster caught the world’s attention last summer (Picture: AP)
The sub imploded deep below the ocean surface (Picture: AP)
The clip will be featured in the Channel 5 documentary ‘Minute by Minute: The Titan Sub Disaster’, which is airing tonight and tomorrow.
Last week, chilling audio revealed the rhythmic banging sound which gave hope that the Titan submersible victims could still be rescued alive.
The Titan lost contact with its mother ship while on an expedition to investigate the wreckage of the Titanic on June 18, 2023.
A frantic search was launched and the families of its passengers – Hamish Harding, 58, Shahzada Dawood, 48, Sulaiman Dawood, 19, Paul-Henry Nargeolet, 77, and Mr Rush, 61 – were left waiting for updates.
Clockwise from top left: Hamish Harding, Stockton Rush, Shahzada Dawood, Suleman Dawood and Paul-Henri Nargeolet all died (Picture: AP)
Debris was found near the Titanic shipwreck (Picture: AP)
Late into the second day of the search, noises were being detected in 30-minute intervals, deep under the ocean.
The regular, steady beat caught the attention of experts and sparked hope that the banging could be SOS signals.
Sadly, Titan had imploded and killed everyone on board as a result of enormous water pressure.
Ten days after its disappearance, the Coast Guard announced that ‘presumed human remains’ had been found in the wreckage of the sub.
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