THE LAST DESCENT.

Features FATE CLEARED UP the weather, blew off the fog, and calmed the waves, as the submersible and its five passengers dived through the surface waters and fell into another world. He'd argued with OceanGate's engineering director, Tony Nissen; OceanGate had responded by refusing to let Lochridge examine the work on the sub's oxygen system, computer systems, acrylic viewport, O-rings, and the critical interfaces between its carbon fiber hull and titanium endcaps. Rush's response was to fire Lochridge immediately; serve him and his wife with a lawsuit (although Carole Lochridge didn't work at OceanGate) for breach of contract, fraud, unjust enrichment, and misappropriation of trade secrets; threaten their immigration status; and seek to have them pay OceanGate's legal fees. In June 2016, Rush piloted Ocean-Gate's shallow-diving sub, the Cyclops 1, to the Andrea Doria, a hulking 700-foot ocean liner that had sunk in 1956 off Nantucket, in a patch of the Atlantic known for its murky fog and seething currents. [Extracted from the article]