Key employee who called the Titan submersible unsafe says company only wanted to make money

The company, based in Washington state, suspended its operations after the implosion
Key employee who called the Titan submersible unsafe says company only wanted to make money
A key employee has told a hearing that OceanGate, the company behind the Titan submersible, only wanted to make money (American Photo Archive/Alamy/PA)

A key employee who labelled a doomed experimental submersible unsafe prior to its last, fatal voyage testified on Tuesday that he frequently clashed with the company’s co-founder and felt the company was committed only to making money.

David Lochridge, OceanGate’s former operations director, is one of the most anticipated witnesses to appear before a commission trying to determine what caused the Titan to implode en route to the wreckage of the Titanic last year, killing all five people on board.

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