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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 .
Rush was in the Titan, a submersible owned and designed by OceanGate, to view the wreck of the Titanic when the vessel lost contact with the surface ship MV Polar Prince on June 18, 2023. [27] Search-and-rescue missions involved water and air support from the United States, Canada, and France. [28]
OceanGate claimed that Titan was the only crewed submersible that used an integrated real-time monitoring system (RTM) for safety. [49] The proprietary system, patented by Rush in 2021, [ 50 ] used acoustic sensors and strain gauges at the pressure boundary to analyse the effects of increasing pressure as the watercraft ventured deeper into the ...
The surviving co-founder of the company that owned the doomed Titan submersible is testifying Monday as a US Coast Guard ... OceanGate first hoped to have a fleet of five submersibles capable of ...
The co-founder and former CEO of OceanGate said the company originally never planned to build its own submersibles while testifying during a hearing on the deadly implosion of its Titan sub.
Shortly after the disaster, the privately owned company which organised the expedition at a cost of $250,000 per passenger, OceanGate, ceased operation, pending the ongoing investigation.
Titan, previously named Cyclops 2, was a submersible created and operated by the American underwater-tourism company OceanGate.It was the first privately-owned submersible with a claimed maximum depth of 4,000 m (13,000 ft), [2] and the first completed crewed submersible with a hull constructed of titanium and carbon fiber composite materials.
The CEO of OceanGate, Stockton Rush — who was on board his company’s submersible that went missing earlier this week and is believed to be dead — was married to a woman with ancestral ties ...