Tony Nissen, OceanGate’s former engineering director says he warned CEO Stockton Rush about issues with Titan submersible ...

Last year, five people hoping to view the Titanic wreckage died when their submersible imploded in the Atlantic Ocean. When ...

Tony Nissen, former director of engineering, characterized Rush as someone who made critical decisions based on speed and cost, changing his mind on a daily basis. Nissen said that Rush eventually ...

The lead engineer on the doomed Titan submersible said Monday that he “100%” felt pressure to get it in the water.

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 ...

A coast guard panel listened to four days of evidence that has raised questions about whether warning signs before the disaster were ignored.

Tony Nissen testified in a hearing that he had told the CEO, "I'm not getting in it." He said he felt pressured to prepare the Titan submersible for operations. The Titan submersible's lead ...

Tony Nissen — testifying as the first witness at a Coast Guard hearing into the sub’s deadly 2023 implosion at the site of the Titanic — described often clashing with company chief Stockton ...

The Titan made its final dive on June 18, 2023, losing contact with its support vessel about two hours later. When it was ...

OceanGate's former engineering director said he refused to take a dive in the ill-fated submersible. Tony Nissen testified in a hearing that he had told the CEO, "I'm not getting in it." He said he ...

However, Tony Nissen– former OceanGate engineering director– understood OceanGate's leader, Stockton Rush, did care about the vessel's safety. "For all of Stockton's faults," Nissen said ...