Articles about submersible

Titanic bow with missing section of railing

RMS Titanic says ‘bittersweet’ dive reveals shipwreck’s decay — and a new treasure

RMS Titanic, the company holding the salvage rights to the wreck of the Titanic, says its latest robotic survey of… Read More

OceanGate investigators see no signs that the crew was warned about fatal implosion

The chairman of the Coast Guard investigation panel for last year’s loss of OceanGate’s Titan submersible says his team has… Read More

Illustration: Triton 4000/2 Abyssal Explorer submersible for Titanic dives

A year after OceanGate tragedy, billionaire plans Titanic trip in a different submersible

Less than a year after the loss of Everett, Wash.-based OceanGate’s submersible and its five-person crew during a dive to… Read More

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

Coast Guard takes charge of the Titan sub investigation and debris recovery effort

The U.S. Coast Guard says it plans to recover debris from OceanGate’s Titan submersible, which was lost along with its… Read More

Now what? OceanGate sub tragedy sets off a torrent of questions without answers

It’s too soon to answer all the questions raised by this week’s loss of OceanGate’s Titan submersible and its five-person… Read More

OceanGate submersible and crew declared lost after discovery of debris near Titanic

After days of searching, the U.S. Coast Guard announced that the OceanGate submersible that went missing during a dive to… Read More

Aerial view of Titan submersible search site

Search team confirms hearing ‘banging’ noises at sea but haven’t found Titanic sub

Searchers are continuing to hear what they describe as “banging” noises as they monitor underwater sounds for signs of an… Read More

OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush chats with GeekWire's Alan Boyle during a 2019 dive in the company's Cyclops submersible.

Here’s what it’s like to steer an OceanGate submersible … no, not the missing sub

The Titan submersible that has gone missing near the wreck of the Titanic isn’t the only sub in OceanGate’s fleet:… Read More

OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush with Titan submersible during construction

Search for OceanGate’s missing Titanic sub widens; crew’s names come to light

The search for an OceanGate submersible that went out of contact during a dive to the wreck of the Titanic… Read More

OceanGate loses contact with submersible during dive to Titanic; search is underway

OceanGate’s Titan submersible has gone out of contact during one of its dives to the wreck of the Titanic, 12,500… Read More

Icebergs ahead? OceanGate plans to get an early start on this year’s Titanic dives

OceanGate Expeditions, which has conducted dives to the site of the Titanic shipwreck in 2021 and 2022, says it will… Read More

OceanGate ramps up the research for its second deep-sea expedition to the Titanic

One year after OceanGate’s first expedition to the Titanic shipwreck, the Everett, Wash.-based company is gearing up for its second… Read More

OceanGate selects its support ship for this summer’s submersible trips to the Titanic

Everett, Wash.-based OceanGate Expeditions has taken one more giant leap toward sending its submersible to the world’s most famous shipwreck,… Read More

OceanGate chooses Toray CMA to make carbon fiber for its Titanic submersibles

Everett, Wash.-based OceanGate says Toray Composite Materials America is its preferred provider for the carbon fiber material that will be… Read More

OceanGate and NASA are teaming up to build better carbon-fiber pressure vessels

Everett, Wash.-based OceanGate says it’s forged an agreement with NASA to support the development of carbon-fiber pressure vessels that could… Read More

OceanGate gets set for undersea trips to the ‘Grand Canyon of the Ocean’ in August

Everett, Wash.-based OceanGate is signing up citizen explorers for a series of deep-sea submersible dives in the Hudson Canyon, a… Read More

How I unwittingly steered OceanGate’s sub to discovery in Puget Sound’s depths

POSSESSION SOUND, Wash. — Steering a five-person submersible is like playing a video game, except for the fact that you’re… Read More

OceanGate’s Titan submersible carries four aquanauts on a record-setting dive

OceanGate set a deep-diving record last week when a crew of four rode inside the Everett, Wash.-based company’s Titan submersible… Read More

OceanGate gears up for deep-sea dives with a crew that’ll pay for the privilege

Everett, Wash.-based OceanGate is heading back down to the Bahamas next week to practice deep-sea dives of Titanic proportions with… Read More

OceanGate CEO pilots submersible to 4,000-meter depth — to get set for Titanic dives in 2019

OceanGate, the Everett, Wash.-based maker of crewed submersible vessels, reached a new milestone this week during a dive in the… Read More