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Part One: Stockton Rush: Inventor of the Deathsub

Behind the Bastards

CHAPTER

How to Monetize Submersibles

In 2005, a company called Deep Ocean Expeditions decides to offer very wealthy clientele trips down to the most famous grave in history. The last of those trips took place in 2012, the hundredth anniversary of the Titanic sinking. Rob McCallum told Rush that the only reason the trips had stopped was that the Russians quit renting out the mirrors, which have since been mothballed. There was never an end in sight to our market, McCallum says. We just didn't have the machines.

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