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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.
On Monday, former OceanGate engineering director Phil Brooks said that he quit in February 2023, in part because the company was asking staff to conduct important safety work in rough seas and had ...
A friend of late OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush warned him against taking customers aboard the company’s Titan submersible four years before it tragically imploded in the depths of the Atlantic Ocean.
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. [3] The company was based in Everett, Washington ...
Richard Stockton Rush III (March 31, 1962 – June 18, 2023) was an American businessman who was the co-founder and chief executive officer of OceanGate, a deep-sea exploration company. After graduation from Princeton University , Rush worked for McDonnell Douglas as a flight test engineer on their F-15 program.
OceanGate Expeditions, the company that launched the Titan submersible, released a statement following the US Coast Guard’s press conference where they announced the five passengers had died ...
OceanGate has no full-time employees currently but will be represented by an attorney during the hearing, the company said in a statement. The company has been fully cooperating with the Coast Guard and NTSB investigations since they began, the statement said. The Titan had been making voyages to the Titanic wreckage site going back to 2021.
The surviving co-founder of the company that owned the doomed Titan submersible is testifying Monday as a US Coast Guard panel continues to investigate what led to the implosion that killed five ...