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
Cyclops 1 submersible on display at Seattle's Museum of History & Industry
Catalina Island was the first location of OceanGate's tourist expeditions.
Screenshot of OceanGate Expeditions' website as of July 2023, indicating its suspension of all operations. A similar version that excluded the word "expeditions" was displayed on their primary website.
OceanGate submersible Antipodes
The wreck of the British ocean liner RMS Titanic lies at a depth of about 12,500 feet, about 325 nautical miles south-southeast off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada. It lies in two main pieces about
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…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…
The Titanic's bow in June 2004
The Titanic surfacing on a poster publicising the film Raise the Titanic. The scene depicted would not have been physically possible.
DSV Alvin, used in 1986 to mount the first crewed expedition to the wreck of the Titanic
The partly collapsed bathroom of Captain Edward Smith, with the bathtub filled with rusticles