OceanGate
American submersible manufacturer
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. In 2021, OceanGate began taking paying tourists in Titan to visit the wreck of the Titanic. In 2022, the price to be a passenger on an OceanGate expedition to the Titanic shipwreck was $250,000 per person.
On June 18, 2023, Titan imploded during a voyage to the Titanic wreck site, killing all five occupants on board, including Rush. An international search and rescue operation was launched, and on June 22 the wreckage was found on the seabed about 500 meters (1,600 ft) from the Titanic wreck site. Although OceanGate claimed to have “partnered with aerospace experts at the University of Washington, NASA and Boeing on the design of our hull,” all three denied any part in Titan’s design or construction in the wake of the loss of the submersible.
On June 21, 2023, it was announced that OceanGate's Everett office was closed indefinitely, and on July 6, 2023, OceanGate suspended all operations.
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