Early OceanGate Titan Rider Realized His Brush With Death Years Later

In April 2019, Karl Stanley, a fellow submersible expert, joined his peer, OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, near the Bahamas to take a dive in an early iteration of the Titan vessel.Stanley, Rush, and two other passengers successfully plunged more than 12,000 feet — a depth that closes in on the Titanic’s wreckage, which sits at the bottom of the Atlantic at about 12,500 feet.But Stanley left…