Oceangate

News 2024-09-23T09:16:10Z

The Titan submersible, a cylindrical vessel with a small hatch at the front, diving in dark blue waters.

A contractor says OceanGate tracked the Titan submersible using an 'idiotic' navigation method that involved pen, paper, and Excel

"The whole system was absolutely idiotic," Antonella Wilby, a former OceanGate contractor, testified at a Friday hearing on the Titan submersible.

Transportation 2024-09-17T08:33:20Z

The Titan submersible's lead engineer says he told OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, 'I'm not getting in it' when asked to do a test dive

OceanGate's former engineering director said he had refused to pilot the ill-fated submersible which imploded more than a year ago.

News 2024-09-10T03:52:10Z

A side view of the Titan submersible, a large white cylindrical vessel with a rounded grey front that has a single porthole in water.

The investigation into OceanGate's doomed submersible is set to go public as the company's insiders gear up to testify

The Coast Guard announced that the hearing will start on September 16, and will discuss how to prevent a similar accident from happening again.

News 2024-06-08T10:38:02Z

Larry Connor, billionaire real estate investor and Ax-1 Pilot on Axiom Mission 1.

Meet Larry Connor, the Ohio billionaire taking a submersible to the Titanic despite last summer's OceanGate implosion

Billionaire Larry Connor says he will take a submersible to the Titanic. An OceanGate submersible imploded last year, killing everyone on board.

Transportation 2024-05-27T13:11:20Z

Ohio man plans to take a 2-person submersible to Titanic depths to show the industry is safe after the OceanGate tragedy

The implosion of OceanGate's Titan submersible sparked worries about the industry. A trip to the depths of the Titanic aims to change that.

News 2023-09-15T15:46:08Z

A company planning an expedition to the Titanic next year says it's 'too soon' after the Titan sub disaster to send people back down

In the aftermath of the Titan sub disaster that killed a company exec, the president of RMS Titanic Inc. says it's "too soon" to send people back down to the wreck.

News 2023-07-31T21:10:00Z

NASA was supposed to help test OceanGate's controversial carbon fiber hull, but the plan was scrapped because of COVID-19

Internal emails between NASA staff members show how the agency dealt with its involvement with OceanGate after the company sub's deadly demise.

News 2023-07-25T22:41:31Z

OceanGate wrote that certifying its sub would block innovation. A longtime sub expert says the 'exact opposite is true.'

"Certification is not an impediment to innovation," an expert said. "Certification is the crucible within which responsible innovation is possible."

News 2023-07-17T10:39:02Z

The Titan submersible, operated by OceanGate Expeditions to explore the wreckage of the sunken SS Titanic off the coast of Newfoundland, dives in an undated photograph.

OceanGate used a mothership too small to carry the Titan in 2023, dragging it behind on a platform to save money, report says

OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush rented the smaller Polar Prince for its 2023 Titanic dives and had to tow the Titan behind it, per The New York Times.

News 2023-07-13T14:50:50Z

An old OceanGate sub is off the market. The broker who tried to sell it for years has 'no idea' what's going to happen to it now.

Steve Reoch told Insider he took OceanGate's Antipodes submersible off the market, but that he has "no idea" what's next for the vessel.

News 2023-07-12T21:03:51Z

OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush planned to use his Titan submersible to cash in on deep-sea mining — the 'biggest gold rush in history' that could cause environmental destruction

Scientists say deep-sea mining could harm marine life. In 2017, Stockton Rush said he thought the Titan submersible could be used in the practice.

News 2023-07-11T16:04:37Z

Aaron Newman aboard OceanGate's Titan submersible in 2021 with Stockton Rush in the background.

The world needs people like 'visionary' OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush: former Titan passenger-turned-investor

"We need people like Stockton. He is a hero," Aaron Newman, who became an investor in OceanGate after a dive on the Titan, said.

News 2023-07-08T09:30:00Z

silhouette of man gesturing in front of white submersible with words oceangate on the side

Read OceanGate's 4-page waiver signed by a would-be Titan passenger listing all the ways they could die in the 'experimental' sub

The lengthy waiver that OceanGate required Titan passengers to sign meant they gave up the right to take legal action for injury or "any other loss."

News 2023-07-06T15:07:08Z

Josh Gates, Stockton Rush and Brian Weed aboard the Titan sub in May 2021.

OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush was 'blinded by his own hubris,' says a documentary cameraman who took a rocky test dive on his sub

Veteran documentary camera operator Brian Weed took a rocky test-dive aboard the doomed Titan submersible in May 2021 and said he didn't feel safe.

News 2023-07-05T14:48:39Z

Stockton Rush, CEO of OceanGate exhibitions.

A former OceanGate submersible pilot was worried CEO Stockton Rush would get himself and others killed in a 'quest to boost his ego'

An ex-OceanGate employee wrote that he was worried CEO Stockton Rush would get people killed, years before his sub imploded, the New Yorker reported.

News 2023-07-04T06:41:52Z

Stockton Rush, OceanGates chief executive, at a press conference next to the Cyclops 1, a five-person sub used by OceanGate

OceanGate boasted on Instagram in 2020 that its Titanic submersible would detect hull defects with 'incredible accuracy' and 'well before the safety of the crew is threatened'

The claim contradicts warnings in 2018 from a senior executive, who said the system only detects flaws "often milliseconds before an implosion."

News 2023-07-03T14:44:44Z

Stockton Rush wearing a yellow button-down shirt while standing in front of a stained-glass window of the American flag.

OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush sent his submersible down to the Titanic with a thruster facing the wrong way last year and had to troubleshoot it on the fly

"Yeah — left and right might be forward and back. Huh. I don't know. It might work," Rush told the submersible's pilot, according to the BBC.

News 2023-07-03T12:12:52Z

OceanGate threatened to sue its former chief pilot in 2018 unless he withdrew allegations that he'd been fired in retaliation for raising safety concerns, says report

Former OceanGate employee David Lochridge called the Titan submersible, which imploded visiting the Titanic, "an accident waiting to happen."

News 2023-07-03T11:48:25Z

OceanGate CEO and co-founder Stockton Rush stands in front of a projected image of the wreckage of the ocean liner SS Andrea Doria

These are the 9 safety concerns an ex-OceanGate worker raised with Stockton Rush about the Titan sub, including fears about its carbon-fiber hull, report says

David Lochridge, who said he was fired by OceanGate after raising safety concerns, was worried people would die on the Titan submersible.

News 2023-07-03T10:25:14Z

A side view of the Titan submersible in water.

Passengers on board the Titan submersible were classified as 'mission specialists' to avoid legal jeopardy if they died, says report

A former OceanGate advisor told The New Yorker that those on board the Titan sub weren't called "passengers" to avoid legal jeopardy if anyone died.

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