"When I started the business, one of the things you'll find, there are other sub operators out there, but they typically have gentlemen who are ex-military submariners, and you'll see a whole bunch of 50-year-old White guys," Rush told Teledyne Marine in a 2020 Zoom interview.

"I wanted our team to be younger, to be inspirational, and I'm not going to inspire a 16-year-old to go pursue marine technology, but a 25-year-old, you know, who's a sub pilot or a platform operator or one of our techs can be inspirational," Rush said. "So we've really tried to get very intelligent, motivated, younger individuals involved because we're doing things that are completely new."

What is new?

Dying in a piece of junk with a weak hull, looking at the weak hulled Titanic claiming "anyone can drive this thing"?

Dumbass.

Lmao

How is this for irony:

According to The New York Times, Rush's wife Wendy is the great-great granddaughter of Isidor and Ida Straus, who were on the Titanic when it went down in 1912.

https://en.as.com/latest_news/titanic-expedition-search-live-updates-missing-oceangate-titan-submersible-rescue-n/

His wife had relatives that died on the actual Titanic too.

Yea, when I fly a plane, I want inspired young pilots who have barely no flight experience so they can learn how to fly. That's exciting! Instead, I get boring old white men.

I'm sure it had nothing at all to do with paying kids less.

It's construction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClkytJa0ghc

Yikes!