Doesn't this remind you of the wealthy tycoons who chose at the last minute to not board the Titanic before it sank in 1912?
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EXCLUSIVE: Tycoon who turned down tickets for him and HIS son on doomed Titanic sub reveals texts from company boss trying to flog him last-minute cut-price seats for $100,000 off and telling him 'it was safer than crossing the street'
By MARTIN ROBINSON, CHIEF REPORTER and JACK TURNER
Daily Mail Online
PUBLISHED: 03:30 EDT, 23 June 2023

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A Las Vegas financier turned down cut-price seats on the Titan's doomed trip after raising safety concerns – but was told by the company boss that it 'was safer than crossing the street', MailOnline can reveal today.

Jay Bloom has shared texts between himself and OceanGate chief executive Stockton Rush showing he and his son were offered a 'last minute price' of $150,000 a head (£120,000) – a discount on the usual $250,000 (£195,000) fee.

Mr Bloom, a Democrat supporter who has been photographed with Joe Biden, has described his sadness at Mr Rush's death and his grief that Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman, who was just 19, had taken their spots and perished as well as French Navy veteran Paul-Henri Nargeolet and British billionaire Hamish Harding.