David Lochridge, OceanGate’s former operations director testifies to Coast Guard investigators about wreck during mission to Andrea Doria site in 2016.

Rush insisted on piloting a Cyclops submersible to the Andrea Doria wreck off Massachusetts in the summer of 2016, OceanGate whistleblower David Lochridge told the US Coast Guard Marine Board of ...

down to see the remains of the Andrea Doria ocean liner. Lochridge said he had expected to be the pilot, as the “most experienced” such member of OceanGate’s team. “Unfortunately ...

Soundarya Rajinikanth and her husband Vishagan Vanangamudi visited a temple in Cuddalore, Tamil Nadu. They offered special ...

Lochridge referred back to 2016, when OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush crashed a different submersible called Cyclops 1 into the wreck of the Andrea Doria while Lochridge watched. “He basically drove ...

11:29 a.m. Rojas testifies that Stockton put the controller down during the Andrea Doria and it did not break. She said the Cyclops was stuck for less than 15 minutes in her approximation.

Lochridge said that Rush ignored pleas for him to keep his distance from the Andrea Doria and “smashed straight down” when he landed the Cyclops. He claimed Rush “basically drove it full ...

“That’s it.” He was no less blunt in recounting a previous voyage, reportedly in 2016, in which Rush insisted on piloting another of OceanGate’s submersibles, called the Cyclops 1, down to see the ...

Rush was involved in a submersible crash in 2016, when he panicked while piloting the Cyclops 1 submersible during a dive to the Andrea Doria shipwreck, according to Lochridge’s testimony this week.