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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’s decision to cease operations comes just after the company’s former finance director claimed she quit after CEO Stockton Rush asked her to captain the Titan once he fired the craft ...
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 ...
On Thursday, former OceanGate operations director David Lochridge testified that very little about the company’s efforts was related to science or a deeper understanding of the ocean.
A lot of steps along the way were missed," testified David Lochridge, former marine operations director of OceanGate, the Washington state company that operated the Titan deep-water vessel.
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.
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 ...
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.