By\u00a0MELISSA KOENIG FOR DAILYMAIL.COM<\/p>\n
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The now-missing CEO of a company that takes passengers onboard a submersible to see the site of the Titanic wreckage once told how he refused to hire ’50-year-old white guys’ with military expertise because they are not ‘inspirational.’<\/p>\n
Stockton Rush added in that interview with Teledyne Marine that expertise is not necessary because ‘anybody can drive the sub’ with just a $30 video game controller.<\/p>\n
In another interview, Rush insisted the Cyclops vessel he designed before the doomed Titan was ‘invulnerable,’ saying he was willing to ‘put my money where my mouth is.’<\/p>\n
Rush, the 61-year-old CEO of\u00a0OceanGate<\/a><\/span>\u00a0Expeditions, is now missing onboard his Titan ship along with four other passengers, including British billionaire Hamish Harding, French Titanic expert Paul-Henry Nargeolet and\u00a0Shahzada Dawood, a UK-based board member of the Prince’s Trust charity, along with his son Sulaiman Dawood.<\/p>\n The vessel had not been heard from since early Sunday morning, and officials fear those on board now have less than a day of oxygen left.<\/p>\n It has since been revealed that OceanGate\u00a0refused to put the Titan through independent testing and fired a director who asked for more rigorous safety testing.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n