Scott Parazynski

According to legal experts, families of the Titan submersible victims may sue OceanGate, the vessel's designer and companies that supplied parts. If a family's negligence was discovered and a cause of the implosion, lawyers said they could sue any outside parties interested in the Titan's construction if they were found to be negligent and a cause of the implosion. According to experts, wrongful death and negligence cases could be filed by the victims' families, who paid $250,000 each to fly 12,500ft below the surface of the Atlantic. The five passengers who died are reported to have been required to sign liability waivers before they boarded the ship, which exploded near the Titanic wreck on June 18. This waiver could play a significant role in court proceedings as families consider their choices, but a significant complicating factor is that the incident occurred in international waters. Logistics manager Scott Griffith (left), chief financial officer Doug Gorder (centre), and former Nasa astronaut Scott Parazynski (right) are among the OceanGate leaders whose involvement could result in legal proceedings, but there is no suggestion that any will be charged.

Stockton Rush, the CEO of OceanGate, spent more than a decade trying to achieve Titanic tourism, despite numerous lawsuits and serious safety concerns. Rush was one of five men to die on Titan's sub-tortise after the ship suffered a 'catastrophic implosion' 1,600 feet from the Titanic's bow. A flurry search and rescue mission has since exposed a slew of flaws in the doomed vessel's design and construction, with previous travelers revealing how their own thrilling trips to the Titan's legendary wreck went awry. It's unclear how many trips the Titan submersible made to the Titanic wreck, but it is reported to have carried passengers on at least ten trips before tragedy struck. RUSH, a French Navy veteran and 26 others, including Rush, Paul-Henri (PH) Nargeolet, British billionaire Hamish Harding, Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman 19 were killed overnight when the ship crashed on Sunday, killing Rush, 19, who was killed immediately. The Titan's horrific demise has been broken down here on DailyMail.com.

In a video that was released just two months before a tourist submarine went missing, NASA Astronaut Dr. Scott Parazynski screamed about his journey thousands of feet below the ocean floor to see the Titanic wreckage. Parazynski, a space veteran who has visited space several times and scaled Mt Everest, joined the Titanic Survey Expedition in 2021. 'It's easier to go to the bottom of the ocean than it is to the far side of the moon,' Parazynski said. We saw something that maybe human eyes had never seen before.' Parazynski was included in the promotional video for OceanGate Expeditions among other tourists and crew members who gushed about the $250,000 journey that drops 12,500 feet into the Atlantic Ocean. They all agreed on the safety precautions involved in the story, which was released in April only months before the tourist subpoena with five passengers went missing on Sunday.