Rob McCallum, the Kiwi adventurer who tried to stop Stockton Rush's Titan OceanGate disaster
Rob McCallum discusses 11,000m dives, Titanic and the deadly deep-sea insanity of OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush.
New Zealander Rob McCallum is a pioneer of deep-sea diving. He's broken the record for the deepest dive in the Mariana Trench – almost 11,000m below sea level.
He's worked with the
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