Jay Bloom, the millionaire who refused to board the Titan submersible: they tried to convince him with a last-minute offer

For a year, Stockton Rush had tried to convince Las Vegas-based investor Jay Bloom to buy a couple of seats on his company’s submersible so that he and his son could experience the unique thrill of visiting the wreckage. titanic at the bottom of the sea.

blossom he was intrigued, he said in an interview Friday. To his son bewho is now 20 years old, was fascinated by the story of the ill-fated british ocean liner when i was a child

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But the more I read about him titan submersible, the more he worried about his safety, he explained. Therefore, she explained that he had kindly declined a last-minute offer to join the expeditionciting scheduling conflicts.

Instead, Bloom noted that the two available seats on board were for Pakistani-born tycoon Shahzada Dawood and her son, Suleman.who perished, along with Rush and two other people, this week when the Titan imploded below the surface of the Atlantic.

“Every time I see a picture of that Pakistani businessman and his 19-year-old son, I think how easy it would have been for me and my 20-year-old son, if it wasn’t for the grace of God.” he claimed blossom.

On Thursday, after the US Coast Guard announced that it had located pieces of the Titan In the deep sea, blossom posted on Facebook (NASDAQ: META) a series of text messages between himself and Rush at the beginning of the year, in which the latter dismissed the idea that the journey was dangerous.

“While obviously there is risk, it is much safer than flying in a helicopter or even diving,” Rush wrote. in a message, stating that no one had been injured aboard a non-military submarine in 35 years.

TO blossomwhich has a private license from helicopterhe was particularly concerned about the use by Stockton of gadgets like a video game joystick to control the boat and the new carbon fiber helmet, and was “scared” that the submarine it could not be opened from the inside, even in an emergency.

Guillermo Söhnlein, co-founder of OceanGate with Rush in 2009, he said the latter was “very aware” of the dangers of exploring the deep ocean and was “very risk averse.”

But safety issues about the design of the Titan they had been raised as early as 2018, both by industry insiders and by a former employee of Rush’s firm.

Source: Elcomercio

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