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OceanGate Inc. is an American privately owned company based in Everett, Washington, that provided crewed submersibles for tourism, industry, research, and exploration. The company was founded in 2009 by Stockton Rush and Guillermo Söhnlein . The company acquired a submersible vessel, Antipodes, and later built two of its own: Cyclops 1 and Titan.
OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, who died aboard Titan, pictured in March 2015. OceanGate was a private company, initiated in 2009 by Stockton Rush and Guillermo Söhnlein.From 2010 until the loss of the Titan submersible, OceanGate transported paying customers in leased commercial submersibles off the coast of California, in the Gulf of Mexico, and in the Atlantic Ocean.
OceanGate's dive to the Titanic shipwreck on June 18, 2023, killed all five people on board. The sub is believed to have imploded within hours of its descent, which raised concerns about OceanGate ...
OceanGate Expeditions chief executive Stockton Rush and French explorer Paul-Henri Nargeolet, who were on the sub, asked the passengers to rock from side to side to try to dislodge the weights.
OceanGate, whose submersible vessel Titan carrying five crew members suffered a ‘catastrophic implosion, in the North Atlantic, has offered tours to the famous shipwreck site since 2021.
1 September 1985; 38 years ago. ( 1985-09-01) The wreck of RMS Titanic lies at a depth of about 12,500 feet (3,800 metres; 2,100 fathoms), about 370 nautical miles (690 kilometres) south-southeast off the coast of Newfoundland. It lies in two main pieces about 2,000 feet (600 m) apart. The bow is still recognisable with many preserved interiors ...
A view of the Horizon Arctic ship as salvaged pieces of the Titan submersible from OceanGate Expeditions are returned in St. John's Harbor,, Newfoundland, Canada, on June 28, 2023.
OceanGate CEO and cofounder Stockton Rush was operating the Titan when it imploded. In addition to Rush and Nargeolet, the implosion killed British adventurer Hamish Harding and two members of a ...