OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush created ‘mousetrap for billionaires’, says friend

Karl Stanley says Rush definitely knew it was going to end like this' and that he had warned Rush the craft was dangerous

A one-time passenger of the submersible that imploded over the wreck of the Titanic last month, killing five, has reportedly said he believes OceanGate's CEO, Stockton Rush, who died in the accident, knew that expeditions of the Titan craft would end in disaster but continued to create a mousetrap for billionaires".

Karl Stanley, who was interviewed by 60 Minutes Australia on Sunday, told the broadcast that he'd warned his friend that the carbon fiber and titanium craft was dangerous.