Friend shockingly claims Titan sub CEO Stockton Rush ‘planned to die’ at the Titanic wreck

As the new documentary about the Titan sub which imploded in 2023 takes over Netflix, one of Stockton Rush’s friends has made a bombshell claim that the captain ‘wanted to die’ at the wreck.

The film, called Titan: The OceanGate Disaster, delves into the true events leading up to the tragedy, which killed five people. Stockton Rush was one of them, the American businessman who owned the deep-sea exploration company OceanGate.

According to a close pal, he allegedly knew it was going to be a one-way trip all along and planned to die at the wreck.

Karl Stanley, a submersible expert and longtime friend of Stockton, made the allegation in a new book called Submersed: Wonder, Obsession and Murder in the World of Amateur Submarines.

“Rush’s ego was so big, he was willing to die and kill to be pivotal to the character of this story. He wanted to go [die] at the wreck [of the Titanic],” he told author Matthew Gavin Frank.

“The more high-profile, the better. He didn’t just murder four wealthy people and get paid a cool mill to do it — they are all part of the Titanic mythology now,” he continued in the book, as revealed by the MailOnline.

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Stanley called the mission a “death dive” and claimed the “futile” sub was never supposed to return. This isn’t the first time he’s spoken about it either.

In 2023, the friend told 60 Minutes Australia: “He definitely knew it was going to end like this. He literally and figuratively went out with the biggest bang in human history that you can go out with.

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“He was the last person to murder two billionaires at once and have them pay for the privilege. I think Stockton was designing a mousetrap for billionaires.”

The man also alleged that Rush named the submarine after a fictional British ship called Titan from the novella “Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan,” written by Morgan Robertson in 1989.

In the book, a ship called Titan hits an iceberg and sinks in the North Atlantic Ocean, eerily similar to what actually happened to the Titanic 14 years later.

However, there is no further evidence to suggest that Stockton Rush intentionally sank the Titan sub. It is believed to have suffered a catastrophic implosion due to the extreme water pressure.

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