A Las Vegas businessman says he was pressured for months into booking a trip on the doomed Titanic tourist submersible, with OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush claiming the ride was safer than scuba diving.

The report makes it clear that many of the problems with the culture at OceanGate came directly from its CEO Stockton Rush, a man Ars calls “a dangerous and deeply unpleasant boss.” Under Rush’s ...