At a U.S. Coast Guard hearing, a pilot described a disastrous trip in which OceanGate’s founder got a submersible stuck under a shipwreck and then threw the controls at his head.

The United States Coast Guard wrapped up the first day of hearings Monday into the deadly Titan submersible implosion from June 2023.

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.