An unlikely source — a Princeton grad with a degree in aerospace engineering and an MBA from Cal Berkeley – in an unlikely workspace (a cramped submersible vehicle the size of a minivan) has done more to promote the mission of safety than anyone since President Nixon signed the Occupational Safety and Health Act in 1970, creating OSHA.
Stockton Rush, 61, CEO of OceanGate, accomplished this by a) trashing safety in words that will live in infamy, calling it “just pure waste;” and b) dying along with four others in a violent implosion of his submersible “Titan” deep in the Atlantic Ocean while trying to reach the remains of the RMS Titanic this June.