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Submersibles

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

Coast Guard engineers examine Titan sub's aft titanium endcap
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Coast Guard brings up additional debris and remains from OceanGate sub wreck

by Alan Boyle on October 10, 2023October 10, 2023 at 10:33 pm

The U.S. Coast Guard says it has recovered and transferred the remaining evidence and debris from OceanGate’s Titan submersible to a U.S. port for cataloging and analysis — nearly three… Read More

Mobile launch platform

Seattle tech exec Gordon Gardiner will face challenging task as OceanGate’s new CEO

by Alan Boyle on August 15, 2023August 16, 2023 at 12:17 pm

A veteran of Seattle’s startup and investment scene, Gordon Gardiner, has been given the task of leading OceanGate through the aftermath of June’s controversial loss of the Titan submersible and… Read More

Ships at Titan sub search site, seen in June 22 satellite image
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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

Titan sub being tested
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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

OceanGate's Titan submersible
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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

Aerial view of Titan submersible search site
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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

OceanGate Titan submersible
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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

Polar Prince at sea
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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

Titanic's bow, seen during OceanGate dive
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OceanGate provides a guided video tour of Titanic shipwreck — and gets set to return

by Alan Boyle on February 8, 2023February 8, 2023 at 11:41 am

The latest film about the Titanic doesn’t show Leonardo DiCaprio standing up on the bow’s railings — instead, a single slim filament of coral takes his place as the king… Read More

Deep-sea life near Titanic
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OceanGate explorers solve a 26-year-old mystery and document life near the Titanic

by Alan Boyle on October 25, 2022October 25, 2022 at 1:01 pm

During an expedition to the Titanic back in 1996, submersible pilot PH Nargeolet noticed a curious sonar blip that was coming from a site near the wreck. Was it a… Read More

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Beyond the Titanic: OceanGate’s founder contemplates future deep-sea frontiers

by Alan Boyle on October 8, 2022October 8, 2022 at 9:02 am

When it comes to undersea adventures, can anything match seeing the 110-year-old wreck of the Titanic with your own eyes? Stockton Rush, OceanGate Expeditions’ president and chief submersible pilot, intends… Read More

Titanic anchor
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OceanGate’s high-def 8K video of Titanic wreck reveals previously unseen details

by Alan Boyle on August 30, 2022August 30, 2022 at 7:59 am

Everett, Wash.-based OceanGate Expeditions set a new standard this year for documenting the condition of the 110-year-old wreck of the Titanic, thanks to a high-definition 8K video system that was… Read More

Titanic bow
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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

Titanic bow
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OceanGate plans environmental DNA survey during this summer’s dives to Titanic shipwreck site

by Alan Boyle on March 15, 2022June 6, 2022 at 4:02 pm

What’s lurking at the Titanic shipwreck site, nearly 13,000 feet beneath the surface of the North Atlantic? Everett, Wash.-based OceanGate aims to help scientists find out by cataloging the genomic… Read More

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OceanGate brings its deep-sea submersible back to homeport — and gets set for its next Titanic trips

by Alan Boyle on November 23, 2021November 23, 2021 at 9:13 am

After making a series of successful dives to the wreck of the Titanic in the North Atlantic this summer, OceanGate’s flagship submersible is returning to its homeport in Everett, Wash.,… Read More

View of Titanic's bow
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The disappearing bathtub and OceanGate’s other tales of the Titanic’s rapid decay

by Alan Boyle on October 18, 2021October 18, 2021 at 8:00 am

For evidence that the wreck of the Titanic is rapidly deteriorating, you need look no further than Captain Edward Smith’s bathtub. That is, if you can find it. The case… Read More

New videos: OceanGate sub dives to Titanic again, reports ship wreckage is ‘rapidly deteriorating’

by Kurt Schlosser on August 3, 2021June 7, 2022 at 10:19 am

In another deep dive to the famed North Atlantic wreckage of the Titanic, Everett, Wash.-based OceanGate captured video with its Titan submersible that shows the ship is “rapidly deteriorating.” “These… Read More

Titanic window frame

OceanGate sub makes first dive to Titanic wreck site and captures photos of debris

by Alan Boyle on July 13, 2021July 15, 2021 at 11:48 pm

After years of building, testing and dealing with setbacks, Everett, Wash.-based OceanGate has sent a next-generation submersible and its crew down to the wreck site of the Titanic for the first… Read More

OceanGate's Titan submersible
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OceanGate gets its Titan sub ready to begin expedition to Titanic shipwreck

by Alan Boyle on May 28, 2021July 12, 2021 at 9:36 pm

OceanGate is finally on the brink of beginning its first deep-sea dives to the Titanic, the world’s most famous shipwreck, 11 years after the company was founded. “I was reading… Read More

Horizon Arctic
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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

OceanGate Titan sub
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OceanGate gets set for dives to Titanic while overcoming the complications of COVID-19

by Alan Boyle on October 16, 2020October 16, 2020 at 6:46 pm

Everett, Wash.-based OceanGate is getting ready to send explorers down to survey the wreck of the Titanic in its own custom-made submersible, but sometimes coping with the coronavirus pandemic can… Read More

OceanGate Titan submersible
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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

OceanGate's Titan submersible
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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

Oceangate submersible
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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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OceanGate raises $18M to build a bigger submersible fleet and set up Titanic trips

by Alan Boyle on January 9, 2020June 22, 2023 at 11:02 am

OceanGate says it has raised $18.1 million in new investment, laying the financial groundwork for an expansion of its fleet of deep-sea submersibles and setting the stage for dives to… Read More

OceanGate's Titan submersible
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OceanGate plans to build submersibles capable of going far below Titanic depths

by Alan Boyle on October 30, 2019October 30, 2019 at 7:02 pm

Everett, Wash.-based OceanGate says it’ll build not just one, but two deep-sea submersibles capable of taking crews as far down as 6,000 meters (3.7 miles) beneath the ocean surface, into… Read More

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