ShortHand: Stockton Rush & The Titan Submersible

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Five ‘billionaires’ stuck thousands of metres below the ocean surface in a homemade submersible that was running out of oxygen. This was the headline ran by every news outlet on Monday the 19th of June 2023, the day after The OceanGate Titan went missing. However, the truth about the Stockton Rush and his “safety is pure waste” submersible was quite different to the headlines, and if anything more irresponsible. 

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