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OceanGate Titan sub

OceanGate investigators see no signs that the crew was warned about fatal implosion

by Alan Boyle on June 11, 2024June 12, 2024 at 8:00 am

The chairman of the Coast Guard investigation panel for last year’s loss of OceanGate’s Titan submersible says his team has “found no evidence” that crew members knew about their peril.… Read More

Illustration: Triton 4000/2 Abyssal Explorer submersible for Titanic dives
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A year after OceanGate tragedy, billionaire plans Titanic trip in a different submersible

by Alan Boyle on May 28, 2024May 28, 2024 at 9:10 am

Less than a year after the loss of Everett, Wash.-based OceanGate’s submersible and its five-person crew during a dive to the Titanic, Triton Submarines is planning a trip to the… Read More

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Coast Guard takes charge of the Titan sub investigation and debris recovery effort

by Alan Boyle on June 25, 2023June 26, 2023 at 8:06 am

The U.S. Coast Guard says it plans to recover debris from OceanGate’s Titan submersible, which was lost along with its crew during a dive to the Titanic shipwreck, as part… Read More

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Now what? OceanGate sub tragedy sets off a torrent of questions without answers

by Alan Boyle on June 23, 2023June 26, 2023 at 8:05 am

It’s too soon to answer all the questions raised by this week’s loss of OceanGate’s Titan submersible and its five-person crew during their dive to the Titanic shipwreck — but… Read More

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OceanGate submersible and crew declared lost after discovery of debris near Titanic

by Alan Boyle on June 22, 2023June 24, 2023 at 8:37 am

After days of searching, the U.S. Coast Guard announced that the OceanGate submersible that went missing during a dive to the wreck of the Titanic was lost, along with its… Read More

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Search team confirms hearing ‘banging’ noises at sea but haven’t found Titanic sub

by Alan Boyle on June 21, 2023June 22, 2023 at 10:21 am

Searchers are continuing to hear what they describe as “banging” noises as they monitor underwater sounds for signs of an OceanGate submersible that went missing during a dive to the… Read More

OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush chats with GeekWire's Alan Boyle during a 2019 dive in the company's Cyclops submersible.
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Here’s what it’s like to steer an OceanGate submersible … no, not the missing sub

by Alan Boyle on June 20, 2023June 22, 2023 at 10:24 am

The Titan submersible that has gone missing near the wreck of the Titanic isn’t the only sub in OceanGate’s fleet: Back in 2019, the company took me down to the… Read More

OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush with Titan submersible during construction
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Search for OceanGate’s missing Titanic sub widens; crew’s names come to light

by Alan Boyle on June 20, 2023June 22, 2023 at 10:25 am

The search for an OceanGate submersible that went out of contact during a dive to the wreck of the Titanic has widened to take in an area of the North… Read More

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OceanGate loses contact with submersible during dive to Titanic; search is underway

by Alan Boyle on June 19, 2023June 19, 2023 at 4:01 pm

OceanGate’s Titan submersible has gone out of contact during one of its dives to the wreck of the Titanic, 12,500 feet beneath the surface of the North Atlantic Ocean. The… Read More

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Icebergs ahead? OceanGate plans to get an early start on this year’s Titanic dives

by Alan Boyle on April 6, 2023April 6, 2023 at 5:15 pm

OceanGate Expeditions, which has conducted dives to the site of the Titanic shipwreck in 2021 and 2022, says it will begin its trips a month earlier this year, in May… Read More

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OceanGate ramps up the research for its second deep-sea expedition to the Titanic

by Alan Boyle on June 6, 2022June 6, 2022 at 5:54 pm

One year after OceanGate’s first expedition to the Titanic shipwreck, the Everett, Wash.-based company is gearing up for its second annual set of dives starting next week — and this… Read More

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OceanGate selects its support ship for this summer’s submersible trips to the Titanic

by Alan Boyle on March 31, 2021April 2, 2021 at 7:57 am

Everett, Wash.-based OceanGate Expeditions has taken one more giant leap toward sending its submersible to the world’s most famous shipwreck, with the selection of the expedition’s support vessel. The Canadian-owned,… Read More

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OceanGate chooses Toray CMA to make carbon fiber for its Titanic submersibles

by Alan Boyle on March 23, 2020March 23, 2020 at 7:07 pm

Everett, Wash.-based OceanGate says Toray Composite Materials America is its preferred provider for the carbon fiber material that will be used in the company’s next-generation submersibles. Toray CMA is the… Read More

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OceanGate and NASA are teaming up to build better carbon-fiber pressure vessels

by Alan Boyle on February 26, 2020February 26, 2020 at 3:16 pm

Everett, Wash.-based OceanGate says it’s forged an agreement with NASA to support the development of carbon-fiber pressure vessels that could handle the crushing demands of deep-sea exploration — as well… Read More

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OceanGate gets set for undersea trips to the ‘Grand Canyon of the Ocean’ in August

by Alan Boyle on February 11, 2020February 11, 2020 at 3:14 pm

Everett, Wash.-based OceanGate is signing up citizen explorers for a series of deep-sea submersible dives in the Hudson Canyon, a channel off the coast of New York City that the… Read More

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How I unwittingly steered OceanGate’s sub to discovery in Puget Sound’s depths

by Alan Boyle on September 1, 2019September 26, 2019 at 5:37 pm

POSSESSION SOUND, Wash. — Steering a five-person submersible is like playing a video game, except for the fact that you’re piloting a nine-ton piece of hardware at watery depths that… Read More

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OceanGate’s Titan submersible carries four aquanauts on a record-setting dive

by Alan Boyle on April 25, 2019April 25, 2019 at 5:05 pm

OceanGate set a deep-diving record last week when a crew of four rode inside the Everett, Wash.-based company’s Titan submersible to the Titanic-level depth of 3,760 meters (12,336 feet) in… Read More

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OceanGate gears up for deep-sea dives with a crew that’ll pay for the privilege

by Alan Boyle on April 5, 2019April 12, 2019 at 4:46 am

Everett, Wash.-based OceanGate is heading back down to the Bahamas next week to practice deep-sea dives of Titanic proportions with its next-generation Titan submersible — and this time, team members… Read More

OceanGate CEO pilots submersible to 4,000-meter depth — to get set for Titanic dives in 2019

by Kurt Schlosser on December 13, 2018December 13, 2018 at 4:13 pm

OceanGate, the Everett, Wash.-based maker of crewed submersible vessels, reached a new milestone this week during a dive in the Bahamas. CEO Stockton Rush became just the second person in… Read More

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