AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, one of five passengers who died on board the Titan submersible ... "There is no private access to the deep ocean, and yet there’s all this ...

get people excited about the ocean, and discover what was out there," he said at the GeekWire summit. It was Rush himself who first tested the Titan in manned trips at incredible depths.

OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush told staff he would not die on his Titan submersible five years before his ill-fated journey to ...

"We now believe that our CEO Stockton Rush ... found was consistent with the catastrophic loss of pressure in the 'Titan' chamber. EVARISTO SA/AFP via Getty; Victoria Sirakova/Getty; OceanGate ...