David Lochridge is a former employer of Oceangate who is in the news in connection with the trending catastrophic implosion of the submissible Titan and its aftermath. Netizens want to know if he was actually fired from his position as the former director of marine operations at Oceangate.

In a 2018 counterclaim lawsuit, a former OceanGate employee claimed that he was fired for raising issues with quality control and testing of potential flaws in the same experimental submersible that vanished this week while carrying its crew and passengers on an underwater tourist excursion to see the Titanic wreck.

Engineer and submarine pilot David Lochridge asserted in his counterclaim against OceanGate that he was engaged by the Everett, Washington-based business in 2015 to guarantee the security of all crew members and customers during the submersible and surface operations of the Titan. He claimed that the business fired him after he voiced his worries regarding the minisub’s hull’s testing and design.

Oceangate: Was David Lochridge fired?

Yes, he was fired. Per the report available to us, David Lochridge of the firm alleged in a court document that he was unlawfully fired in 2018 for raising issues with the safety and testing of the Titan, which went missing on Sunday with five people on board while travelling to see the Titanic’s wreckage.

In 2018, the business fired Lochridge and filed a lawsuit against him and his wife, alleging that he had stolen trade secrets, divulged private information, and used the business to help immigrants.

According to the lawsuit, Lochridge is a diver and submersible pilot rather than an engineer. In a countersuit, Lochridge claimed that Stockton Rush, the CEO of OceanGate and one of the five people aboard the Titan, had asked him to do an inspection of the submersible.

Lochridge had worries about the Titan’s hull’s lack of non-destructive testing to look for “delaminations, porosity and voids of sufficient adhesion of the glue being used due to the thickness of the hull,” according to the lawsuit.

It claims that when Lochridge brought up the subject, he was informed that no tools were available to conduct such a test.In November 2018, the lawsuit was resolved and dismissed. Neither Lochridge nor the conditions of the settlement were available for comment.

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