Rush “crashed into the rear bulkhead, the rest of the passengers tumbled about, I ended up standing on the rear bulkhead,” ex-OceanGate scientific director said.

A paid passenger on an expedition to the Titanic with the company that owned the Titan submersible testified before a U.S. Coast Guard investigatory panel Friday that the mission he took part in was aborted due to an apparent mechanical failure.

Passenger on a previous Titan submersible dive testified his mission was aborted underwater due to apparent malfunction

The malfunction caused passengers onboard the submersible to “tumble about,” Steven Ross said, and it took an hour to get them out of the water.

"There was a malfunction in the platform and that took considerable time to correct, and thus the dive was aborted," Steven Ross told a Coast Guard panel