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CEO of missing Titanic Sub company once downplayed danger of voyage: ‘Shouldn’t take a lot of skill’

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The CEO on the missing Titan sub once bragged that his invention “shouldn’t take a lot of skill” to reach Titanic depths, using just an elevator-style button — and a videogame controller — but insisted that even if something goes haywire, “you’re still going to be safe.”

OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush — one of the five people onboard the still-missing submersible — had invited CBS News on an earlier doomed mission on Titan late last year.

“This is not your grandfather’s submersible,” Rush, 61, quipped to at-times terrified correspondent David Pogue in a clip that has since gone viral.

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