Oceangate CEO sued months before submarine went missing

Winter Park, Florida (WFLA) – OceanGate Expeditions A few months before submersibles went missing After visiting to see the wreckage of the Titanic, a Central Florida couple filed a lawsuit against the company in the North Atlantic for alleged fraud, according to the documents.

Since 2021, Oceangate has been guiding tourists to the site of the Titanic sinking. The company’s 21-foot-long submarine Titan went missing Sunday with five people on board.

Winter Park’s Mark and Sharon Heigl had planned to visit the wreckage of the submarine Ocean Gate in 2018. He is said to have paid more than $200,000 for the expedition. However, the trip was delayed and the couple never set sail. The couple said Oceangate continued to postpone trips and refused refunds.

The Hegles sued Oceangate CEO Richard Stockton Rush for fraud, saying the company “knew the ship wasn’t ready to travel and wouldn’t refund the money.” Nevertheless, I deliberately brought them along.”Rush is one of them. five people You are on a missing submarine.

The couple said the trip was canceled and rescheduled for July 2019, but Oceangate said it canceled the trip again because “the contracted support vessel refused to join.” Their expedition has been rescheduled again for sometime in 2020.

At that point, the Haggles asked for a refund, according to the document, and Rush began working on a “full refund plan.”

And on June 19, 2019, Haggles received yet another cancellation notice. This time, the deep-sea trip was canceled due to an “equipment failure” on the Titan.

The trip was postponed and canceled several more times. The couple declined to participate in a trip scheduled for July 2021. It said Oceangate “requested” participation in the trip. The Haggles reportedly told Oceangate that she did not intend to participate in the trip. The company later informed the couple that they would not be refunded.

The submarine they were supposed to be on has now disappeared on the frontier of the North Atlantic Ocean.

According to the Associated Press, “The submarine that went missing on Sunday may have sunk to a depth of about 12,500 feet below the surface near the historic ocean liner water grave,” a new revelation revealed. The allegations suggest that serious warnings about the safety of the vessel were made during its development.”

A desperate rescue operation runs out of time and a Canadian military plane Detects underwater noise Wednesday morning.

Although the Hagle family didn’t go on an underwater trip, they traveled to space in 2022 aboard the Blue Origin New Shepard. first couple in space in a commercial vehicle.