According to the report, during his testimony before the US Coast Guard inquiry into the June 2023 disaster, which claimed the lives of all five people aboard, Lochridge condemned OceanGate’s focus on profit over safety.
Larry Connor is the founder of The Connor Group, a luxury real estate firm based in Dayton, Ohio, boasting a net worth of $2 billion and a real estate portfolio valued at $5 billion.
OceanGate's Titan sub embarked on a journey to explore the Titanic wreck but met with a catastrophic end within two hours into its dive, at a depth of 12,000 feet in the Atlantic.
Apart from heading OceanGate, Guillermo Sohnlein is the founder of Humans2Venus.
Titanic sub: James Cameron had said he knew something was wrong the moment communications and navigation was lost together at the same time.
Brian Szasz, stepson of British businessman Hamish Harding, complained about not being able to 'get laid' despite his inheritance.
The video showed a 3D OceanGate-branded submersible being crushed and torn apart.
During the terrifying free fall that lasted between 48 and 71 seconds, the occupants of the Titan were acutely aware of the severity of their predicament.
The implosion killed all five people on board, including Stockton Rush, the submersible's pilot and the chief executive officer of the company.
OceanGate's Titanic expedition is a commercial initiative to explore the 110-year-old shipwreck with a submersible that takes five people to the depths of the ocean.
'Trying to make money from others’ suffering is always a bad idea,' a Twitter user pointed out while others called for Subway to apologise.
The Titanic submersible passengers were warned about potential condensation on the submersible's floor and encouraged to avoid getting their feet wet.
Among the submersible debris were the presumed human remains of the five passengers that were killed on board due to the implosion after it went missing on June 18.
OceanGate's Titanic trips included a submersible drive, private accommodations, expedition gear, all meals on board and all required training.
Debris from the Titan submersible, recovered from the ocean floor near the wreck of the Titanic, was unloaded from the ship Horizon Arctic at the Canadian Coast Guard pier in St. John's, Newfoundland on Wednesday. The debris is expected to shed more light on the cause of the catastrophic implosion that killed everyone on board. Presumed 'human remains' were found on the wreckage recovered from the ocean floor. Watch to know more!
Presumed human remains have been recovered from the debris of the Titan submersible that was returned to land on Wednesday, the US Coast Guard has said.
Sebastian Harris was just 13-years-old when he explored the wreck of the Titanic. He said he lost consciousness during the descent.
Titanic sub: Suleman Dawood's father, Shahzada Dawood, had carried a camera on the Titanic sub to capture his son creating the Rubik's Cube world record under the depths of the ocean.
Suleman Dawood, the 19-year-old son of Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood, was terrified before the Titanic expedition which ended in tragedy.
Titanic sub: Archival records show that Wendy Rush, the wife of OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, is the great-great-granddaughter of Isidor and Ida Straus.
Shortly after it submerged, the submersible's communication systems and safety pings ceased functioning, sparking rumours about a power outage or a hull breach.
OceanGate's CEO, Stockton Rush, in a 2019 interview, suggested that excessive regulations were impeding progress and innovation in the industry.
Search and rescue effort is going on in the North Atlantic after a submersible exploring the wreck of the Titanic ship went missing deep under the ocean on June 18.
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It was January 2018, and the company’s engineering team was about to hand over the craft — named Titan — to a new crew who would be responsible for ensuring the safety of its future passengers. But experts inside and outside of the company were beginning to sound alarms.