Posted on 05/28/2024 1:00:18 PM PDT by lowbridge
An Ohio real-estate investor is planning to take a two-person submersible down to Titanic-level depths to prove that the journey can be carried out safely following the Titan sub's implosion last year.
The investor, Larry Connor, told The Wall Street Journal: "I want to show people worldwide that while the ocean is extremely powerful, it can be wonderful and enjoyable and really kind of life-changing if you go about it the right way."
He's working with Patrick Lahey, a cofounder and the CEO of the submersible manufacturer Triton Submarines.
They aim to show that such an expedition can be carried out repeatedly and safely despite the implosion of the OceanGate sub in June, which killed all five people on board, including the company's CEO, Stockton Rush.
Lahey said that Connor called him a few days after the implosion and said: "'You know, what we need to do is build a sub that can dive to [Titanic-level depths] repeatedly and safely and demonstrate to the world that you guys can do that, and that Titan was a contraption.'"
Connor, who has been to the Mariana Trench, the deepest oceanic trench on Earth, said they planned to do the journey in a two-person vessel called the Triton 4000/2 Abyssal Explorer, named "4000" for the depth in meters it can reach. He did not say when the trip would take place.
Lahey was one of the many industry figures who criticized OceanGate before and after the disaster, accusing it of questionable safety standards.
After the implosion, he described Rush's approach to persuading people to get on board as "quite predatory."
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A former chief submersible pilot for the company said years before the fatal trip that he was worried Rush would get himself and others killed in a "quest to boost his ego."
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I hope his life insurance is paid up...................
I hope he’s not using a game controller made in China to pilot that sub.
Does Patrick Lahey, the cofounder and the CEO of the submersible manufacturer Triton Submarines, hire 50 year old white men to engineer his subs? If he doesn’t anyone would be a fool to ride in his subs.
Darwin is watching.
“Ohio man plans”
In a moment of dyslexia, I read that as “Ohio trans man”
Where’s the florida man?
The Titanic should be left to be. We have gained as much information as we were bound to find from her, now almost forty years since Robert Ballard discovered the wreck. How many people have visited her since then and in doing so caused even more damage to her?
Titanic should be left alone for all time. Let the sea erode her gracefully away.
4000 meters...which is the max depth for the submersible if I read it right...is just 200 meters more than the Titanic depth.
I guess nothing says “fun” like testing the max load of piece of machinery, where its potential failure means that you are crushed instantly and left at the bottom of the black abyss of the north Atlantic.
Sign me up!
Who drew the short straw to ride with him?
He’s down for the cause.
“I guess nothing says “fun” like testing the max load of piece of machinery, where its potential failure means that you are crushed instantly and left at the bottom of the black abyss of the north Atlantic.”
LOL. True.
Some things man should just leave alone.
The Titanic is one of them....................
Well...at least this one has seats...
Yes, it won’t happen again.
Cardboard and duct tape have made miraculous advances since June 2023.
SOOOOOOO who is signing up to be the other passenger???
Insanity ... doing the same thing again and again and expecting different results.
“where’s the Florida man”? even Florida Man isn’t dumb enough to take this trip. Florida woman? maybe.
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