What Is the OceanGate Titan Submersible and How Does It Work? More Reuters 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 Expeditions/Hando...
"The debris field is consistent with a catastrophic implosion of the vessel," Rear Adm. John Mauger of the Coast Guard said at a briefing, offering "deepest condolences to the families." A spokesperson for OceanGate Expeditions, the company behind the voyage, told reporters that the passeng...
The U.S. Coast Guard is leading the search for the small craft, named Titan, in a remote area of the North Atlantic Ocean. OceanGate Expeditions, an undersea exploration company, has been chronicling the Titanic’s decay and the underwater ecosystem around it via year...
It was not entirely clear Friday who would have the authority to lead what is sure to be a complex investigation involving several countries. OceanGate Expeditions, the company that owned and operated the Titan, is based in the U.S., but the submersible was registered in the Bahamas. OceanGa...
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...
The company conducting the underwater mission to visit the Titanic is called OceanGate Expeditions. CEO Stockton Rush, British billionaire and owner of Action Aviation Hamish Harding, a French dive expert named Paul Henry Nargeolet, Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son, Suleman Dawood,...
Image:The OceanGate Expeditions vessel pictured above water. File pic After five frantic days of searching, "major pieces" of the Titan have been found near the Titanic wreck - with all five men who were on board the submersible presumed dead. ...
Arnie's three-part article series chronicles his journey as he prepared to join an OceanGate Expeditions mission to explore the depths of the Titanic wreck. Part 1: Preparing to dive Before heading to the wreck site on May 20, 2023, the OceanGate crew secures the Titan sub and its launch...
June 19, 2023, a rescue operation was underway deep in the Atlantic Ocean in search of the technologically advanced submersible vessel carrying five people to document the wreckage of the Titanic, the iconic ocean liner that sank more than a century earlier. (OceanGate Exp...
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