
Newman said the explorers on the missing submersible - OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, British billionaire Hamish Harding, French dive expert Paul Henry Nargeolet, and prominent Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son, Suleman - are a “good set of people” who were likely doing what they could “to stay alive.

There are risks, right? And we know that.” “We’re going places that a very few people have been. They did a lot of training around safety and the backup systems around dropping weights,” Newman said. Expeditions are always a 'risk'Īaron Newman, a former passenger on the missing Titan and an investor in OceanGate, said he felt “safe” during his journey but acknowledged that risks are involved in such expeditions.

The details of the settlement were unclear.

The two sides settled a few months later. Lochridge’s claims, which were first reported by The New Republic, were in his counterclaim to a 2018 breach of contract lawsuit OceanGate filed saying he was not an engineer. Travel Channel’s Expedition Unknown chronicles Gates’ adventures as he sets out on a global journey to find the truth behind captivating and iconic unsolved legends including the disappearance of Amelia Earhart in the South Pacific, the quest for King Arthur in the U.K., and Blackbeard’s missing gold in the Caribbean.
