Rush “crashed into the rear bulkhead, the rest of the passengers tumbled about, I ended up standing on the rear bulkhead,” ex-OceanGate scientific director said.

You wanted me to buy off on the idea of going to the Titanic and I told him ‘No’,” said Tony Nissen, Oceangate’s Chief of Engineering. That was just one of the statements from the Chief of Engineering on Monday morning during hearings on the implosion of the Everett Company’s underwater submersible.

The Titan submersible experienced a malfunction days before its dive an OceanGate scientific director testifies.

OceanGate’s former director of marine operations detailed the “appalling” faults with the original model of the doomed Titan submersible that he refused to sign off on — and detailed how its CEO liked to “do things on the cheap.