A friend who worked on the film “Titanic” just sent me a report headlined: “Titan Sub: OceanGate CEO Didn’t Want to Hire ’50-Year-Old White Guys’ Because They’re Not ‘Inspirational’”
The report is worth reading in full, but especially noteworthy are statements that OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush made in 2020.
“When I started the business, one of the things you’ll find, there are other sub-operators out there but they typically have gentleman who are ex-military submariners and you’ll see a whole bunch of 50-year-old white guys.
“I wanted our team to be younger, to be inspirational, and I’m not going to inspire a 16-year-old to go pursue marine technology, but a 25-year-old, you know, who’s a subpilot or a platform operator or one of our techs, can be inspirational. So we’ve really tried to to get very intelligent, motivated, younger individuals involved because we’re doing things that are completely new….