During its 2022 expedition, OceanGate reported that the submersible had a battery issue on its first dive and had to be manually attached to its lifting platform. Greg Stone, a longtime ocean scientist based in California who has been on similar submersibles, said the ve...
The Titan, operated by Washington state-based company OceanGate Expeditions, left for its Titanic trip with five people on board, including at least three paying passengers. TheU.S. Coast Guardis leading the search for the vessel about 900 miles east of Cape Cod and around 400 mile...
And right there, in microcosm, is the debate I’ve had with myself for the past year. Stockton Rush, who died in the implosion, was OceanGate’s CEO and theTitan’s designer. Was he a bold innovator, the Elon Musk of submersibles, advancing 50-year-old ideas with modern technologies?