Episode 2243
OceanGate
Sat, 2023-Jun-24 03:38 UTC
Length - 2:03
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With 571,387 views on Friday, 23 June 2023 our article of the day is OceanGate.
OceanGate Inc. is a privately owned U. S. company in Everett, Washington, that provides crewed submersibles for tourism, industry, research, and exploration. The company was founded in 2009 by Stockton Rush and Guillermo Söhnlein. The company acquired a submersible vessel, Antipodes, and later built two of its own: Cyclops 1 and Titan. In 2021, OceanGate began taking paying tourists in the Titan to visit the wreck of the Titanic. As of 2022, the price to be a passenger on an OceanGate expedition to the Titanic shipwreck was US$250,000 per person. In June 2023, Titan imploded during a voyage to the Titanic shipwreck site, killing all 5 occupants on board, including the company's founder Stockton Rush. An international search-and-rescue operation was launched, and on June 22, the wreckage was found on the seabed near the Titanic wreck site.
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 03:38 UTC on Saturday, 24 June 2023.
For the full current version of the article, see OceanGate on Wikipedia.
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