A TikTok account discovered that ahead of the crash that killed five people, OceanGate had an “urgent” job vacancy for a submersible pilot as social media continues to be obsessed with the tragedy.
Five people were confirmed dead in the tragedy on Thursday, including OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, 61; French explorer Paul_Henry Nargeolet; British billionaire explorer Hamish Harding, 58; and Pakistani father and son Shahzada Dawood, 48; and Suleman Dawood, 19.
The company posted a job posting last week on its website and networking app, Indeed, looking for a sub-pilot. It has since been removed from her Indeed page as of Friday morning.
They were looking for “a dedicated and competent individual with a combination of strong mechanical and interpersonal skills who can work on sensitive marine equipment, perform routine maintenance and operate complex dive support systems.”
According to The Messenger, several TikTok accounts spotted the post, prompting some to poke fun at the company. OceanGate has faced a lot of criticism on social media since the Titan was reported missing.
A TikTok account discovered that ahead of the crash that killed five people, OceanGate had an “urgent” job posting for a submersible pilot as social media continues to be obsessed with the tragedy
Some even believed they were already trying to replace Rush or other OceanGate employees after their deaths, although this was likely made public before this week.
“Don’t work yourself to death for any company, they will replace you before you’re even buried under the ground,” wrote one user.
“This literally proves what everyone says about companies filling your position the second you die,” wrote a second, whose video has since been removed.
A spokesman for OceanGate, which has indefinitely suspended operations at the office, said the company has not “provided any additional information” beyond its immediate response to the deaths confirmed Thursday.
The Titanic Five were killed instantly when the submersible suffered a “catastrophic implosion” just 1,600 feet off the wrecked ocean liner’s bow, the US Coast Guard said yesterday. A remote-controlled submarine belonging to a Canadian ship found debris on the seabed.
However, search and rescue workers say the men likely died on Sunday – before military planes carrying sonar buoys detected what they thought could be SOS booms in the water.
The US Navy said it heard a sound suggesting an implosion when communications were cut about two hours after the dive. The Navy has relayed this information to the Coast Guard, an insider said.
According to court documents, a former OceanGate employee previously raised safety concerns about the Titan submersible.
The company posted a job posting last week on its website and networking app, Indeed, looking for a sub-pilot
Several TikTok accounts spotted the post, prompting some to poke fun at the company
OceanGate has faced a lot of criticism on social media since the Titan was reported missing
David Lochridge, former director of marine operations at OceanGate, claimed a wrongful dismissal after raising concerns about the company’s alleged “refusal to conduct critical, non-destructive testing of the experimental design.”
OceanGate boss Rush had been warned years earlier that his “experimental approach” could lead to disaster.
It would have been instant death for the men, some of whom had paid $250,000 each to see the famous shipwreck.
It’s a heavy blow to their families, experts say, and there’s little prospect of their remains being recovered.
“It’s an incredibly harsh environment down there.” “The debris indicates a catastrophic implosion of the ship. We’ll keep working and scanning the area down there — but I don’t have an answer on the prospects at this time,” Paul Hankin, a deep-sea expert involved in the study, said.
Five people were on board, including British billionaire adventurer Hamish Harding and Shahzada Dawood and his 19-year-old son Suleman
French Navy veteran PH Nargeolet (left) was in the submarine with Stockton Rush (right), CEO of OceanGate Expedition
Rush said in a video posted online in 2021 that he “broke some rules” in making the ship, adding: “The carbon fiber and the titanium, there’s a rule, you can’t do that – I did that .”
He also said in 2020 that the hull had “showed signs of cyclic fatigue.”
Carbon fibers are prone to delamination, the process by which a material breaks into layers under pressure.