The tourist sub known as the Titan, which went missing taking high-paying tourists into the depths to see the wreckage of the Titanic, has more in common with the famous shipwreck than its name!
According to legal docs obtained by CBS MoneyWatch, in 2018 an employee of OceanGate was fired by the submarine tourism company after voicing his concerns with the submersible’s safety. David Lochridge then was sued by his former employers because he’d allegedly breached his contract by disclosing confidential info.
The thing is, that confidential info was concerns over the sub’s safety issues — and he was disclosing them to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration!
When a whistleblower filed a complaint with OSHA against the company, they immediately assumed it was Lochridge — and brought him straight to court over it.
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