{"id":270214,"date":"2023-06-21T18:35:32","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T18:35:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=270214"},"modified":"2023-06-24T05:21:35","modified_gmt":"2023-06-24T05:21:35","slug":"titanic-tour-ceo-stockton-rush-said-he-didnt-hire-50-year-old-white-guys-because-they-were-not-inspirational","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=270214","title":{"rendered":"Titanic tour CEO Stockton Rush said he didn&#8217;t hire &#8217;50-year-old white guys&#8217; because they were NOT &#8216;inspirational&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8211; as footage emerges of him boasting of previous &#8216;invulnerable&#8217; sub designed to explore &#8216;unsinkable&#8217; Titanic<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Stockton Rush, 61, the CEO of OceanGate Expeditions once said he refused to hire &#8217;50-year-old white guys&#8217; because they are not &#8216;inspirational&#8217;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>In another interview, he insisted that his Cyclops submersible was &#8216;invulnerable&#8217;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Rush is now missing onboard that vessel, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12215003\/OceanGate-REFUSED-independent-inspection-missing-sub-fired-worker-raised-safety-concerns.html\">OceanGate refused to put through independent testing\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Melisa Koenig \u2013 Daily Mail June 21, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>The now-missing CEO of a company that takes passengers onboard a submersible to see the site of the Titanic wreckage once told how he refused to hire &#8217;50-year-old white guys&#8217; with military expertise because they are not &#8216;inspirational.&#8217;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_270216\" style=\"width: 390px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Stockton-Rush-demonstrates-how-the-vessel-can-be-navigated-with-a-PlayStation-controller.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-270216\" class=\"wp-image-270216\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Stockton-Rush-demonstrates-how-the-vessel-can-be-navigated-with-a-PlayStation-controller.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"380\" height=\"214\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-270216\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stockton Rush demonstrates how the vessel can be navigated with a PlayStation controller. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Stockton Rush added in that interview with Teledyne Marine that expertise is not necessary because &#8216;anybody can drive the sub&#8217; with just a $30 video game controller.<\/p>\n<p>In another interview, Rush insisted the Cyclops vessel he designed before the doomed Titan was &#8216;invulnerable,&#8217; saying he was willing to &#8216;put my money where my mouth is.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Rush, the 61-year-old CEO of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/oceangate-expeditions\/index.html\"><strong>OceanGate<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0Expeditions, is now missing onboard his Titan ship along with four other passengers, including British billionaire Hamish Harding, French Titanic expert Paul-Henry Nargeolet and\u00a0Shahzada Dawood, a UK-based board member of the Prince&#8217;s Trust charity, along with his son Sulaiman Dawood.<\/p>\n<p>The vessel had not been heard from since early Sunday morning, and officials fear those on board now have less than a day of oxygen left.<\/p>\n<p>It has since been revealed that OceanGate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12215003\/OceanGate-REFUSED-independent-inspection-missing-sub-fired-worker-raised-safety-concerns.html\"><strong>refused to put the Titan through independent testing and fired a director who asked for more rigorous safety testing.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rush, the 61-year-old CEO of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/oceangate-expeditions\/index.html\"><strong>OceanGate<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0Expeditions, is now missing onboard his Titan ship along with four other passengers, including British billionaire Hamish Harding, French Titanic expert Paul-Henry Nargeolet and\u00a0Shahzada Dawood, a UK-based board member of the Prince&#8217;s Trust charity, along with his son Sulaiman Dawood.<\/p>\n<p>The vessel had not been heard from since early Sunday morning, and officials fear those on board now have less than a day of oxygen left.<\/p>\n<p>It has since been revealed that OceanGate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12215003\/OceanGate-REFUSED-independent-inspection-missing-sub-fired-worker-raised-safety-concerns.html\"><strong>refused to put the Titan through independent testing and fired a director who asked for more rigorous safety testing.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-12219265\/Stockton-Rush-said-didnt-hire-50-year-old-white-guys-NOT-inspirational.html\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He also fired a director who asked for more rigorous safety testing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":270218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Current_Affairs","category-Miscellaneous"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=270214"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270219,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270214\/revisions\/270219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/270218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=270214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=270214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=270214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}