News
2024-09-23T09:16:10Z
"The whole system was absolutely idiotic," Antonella Wilby, a former OceanGate contractor, testified at a Friday hearing on the Titan submersible.
OceanGate's former engineering director said he had refused to pilot the ill-fated submersible which imploded more than a year ago.
One of the last messages from the Titan submersible was, "All good here." The submersible lost contact with its support ship about 30 minutes after.
News
2024-09-10T03:52:10Z
The Coast Guard announced that the hearing will start on September 16, and will discuss how to prevent a similar accident from happening again.
A year on from the Titan submersible implosion, the US Coast Guard says its investigation into what happened will miss its 12-month deadline.
News
2024-06-16T02:35:02Z
Karl Stanley raised concerns about OceanGate's Titan after a 2019 trip but didn't learn the true extent of the submersible's problems until this week.
Former OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush dreamt of building self-driving submersibles and underwater doomsday bunkers for billionaires, Wired reported.
The filmmaker said the operation "transformed into this crazy thing" when he was already certain all the passengers were dead.
News
2024-06-08T10:38:02Z
Billionaire Larry Connor says he will take a submersible to the Titanic. An OceanGate submersible imploded last year, killing everyone on board.
The implosion of OceanGate's Titan submersible sparked worries about the industry. A trip to the depths of the Titanic aims to change that.
Tech
2023-12-24T23:56:58Z
The Titan Submersible implosion appeared to be the result of its mastermind's hubris. It offers a warning to innovators of 2024.
The final debris from the Titan submersible's implosion was recovered by US Coast Guard officials: an intact aft titanium endcap.
News
2023-08-05T09:01:41Z
Gordon Gardiner started his career at JPMorgan, where he spent 15 years before becoming a CEO and being on the boards of seven companies.
Guillermo Söhnleinm told Insider he has wanted to make humanity a multi-planet species since he was 11 years old, and that OceanGate was part of that ambition.
News
2023-07-22T12:00:01Z
An OceanGate expedition was cut short when one of the batteries on the sub was accidentally flooded on a dive, three people involved with the mission said.
News
2023-07-21T15:07:56Z
Stockton Rush embraced Silicon Valley's mantra to "move fast and break things." But that was his fatal flaw, insiders say.
News
2023-07-17T10:39:02Z
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.
Mckenzie Margarethe spent two years working on a touring submarine in Hawaii – she told Insider what she keeps an eye out for when booking a tour.
News
2023-07-15T13:30:00Z
The Titan submersible only reached the depth of the Titanic wreck on "as few as 13" out of 90 dives, according to OceanGate's liability waiver.
News
2023-07-15T11:30:00Z
Arnie Weissmann, editor-in-chief of Travel Weekly, says he "dodged a bullet" after his dive on the submersible got called off due to bad weather.