Time after time, tragedies like the Titan disaster occur because leaders ignore red flags
- Written by Tony Jaques, Senior Research Associate, RMIT University

The loss of the OceanGate submersible Titan appears to be an example of warnings ignored.
“We have heard the baseless cries of ‘you are going to kill someone’ way too often,” OceanGate chief executive Stockton Rush wrote in 2018, after being told he was putting lives at risk using his experimental submersible...