CEO touted the Titan as ‘one of the great moments of submersibles’ in 2018
Washington Post
“The days of government funding are gone,” OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush said at the Titan’s christening in 2018, five years before it went missing.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/06/22/titanic-submersible-ceo-christening-stockton-rush/