Titan engineer ‘felt pressure to get submersible ready for wreck dive’

Tony Nissen has given evidence to the inquiry (Mic Smith/AP)

The lead engineer for an experimental submersible that imploded on its way to the wreck of the Titanic has told an inquiry he felt pressured to get the vessel ready to dive and refused to pilot it on a journey several years earlier.

“I’m not getting in it,” Tony Nissen said he told Stockton Rush, co-founder of the OceanGate company that owned the Titan submersible.