Tony Nissen is the former engineering director for OceanGate, the company that owned the Titan submersible. Nissen was the first witness at a Coast Guard hearing in South Carolina on Monday.

British adventurer Hamish Harding and father and son Shahzada and Suleman Dawood died on the trip to the Titanic wreck.

“‘I’m not getting in it,'” Tony Nissen said he told Stockton Rush, co-founder of the OceanGate company that owned the Titan submersible. Nissen, OceanGate’s former engineering director, was the first ...

The lead engineer for an experimental submersible ... “I’m not getting in it,” Tony Nissen said he told Stockton Rush, co-founder of the OceanGate company that owned the Titan submersible.

I’m not getting in it,’” Tony Nissen said he told Stockton Rush, co-founder of the OceanGate company that owned the Titan submersible. Nissen, OceanGate’s former engineering director ...