
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. Joining treasure hunters and maritime archaeologists, Josh hunts for a lost cache of Spanish gold and the remains of Drake himself. They did a lot of training around safety and the backup systems around dropping weights,” Newman said. Aug42min TV-PG Josh Gates searches land and sea for the lost fortune of legendary pirate Sir Francis Drake. 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.
