Ohio billionaire Larry Connor is planning on taking a deep-sea submersible to the Titanic wreckage to prove the industry is safe nearly a year after the infamous OceanGate implosion.
(PLGNN) - Billionaire real estate investor Larry Connor, 74, of Dayton, Ohio, plans to visit the wreckage of the Titanic with Triton Submarines co-founder Patrick Lahey. The pair will plunge about 12,500 feet (3,800 meters), to the site of the shipwreck in a two person submersible.
This comes almost a year after the infamous OceanGate submersible incident, in which the Titan submersible, which is a submersible made by the exploration company OceanGate, tragically imploded with five people on board while diving to the Titanic. Onboard the Titan was OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his 19 year-old son Suleman Dawood, along with British businessman Hamish Harding and French explorer Paul-Henri Nargeolet.
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".
Patrick Lahey has designed a $20 million submersible named the Triton 4000/2 Abyssal Explorer, which Connor has said could carry out the dive repeatedly. Connor also said that “Patrick has been thinking about and designing this for over a decade. But we didn’t have the materials and technology. You couldn’t have built this sub five years ago.”
Shortly after the OceanGate tragedy, which occurred June 18th, 2023, Connor said he had called Lahey and asked him to build a better sub.
(PLGNN) - Billionaire real estate investor Larry Connor, 74, of Dayton, Ohio, plans to visit the wreckage of the Titanic with Triton Submarines co-founder Patrick Lahey. The pair will plunge about 12,500 feet (3,800 meters), to the site of the shipwreck in a two person submersible.
This comes almost a year after the infamous OceanGate submersible incident, in which the Titan submersible, which is a submersible made by the exploration company OceanGate, tragically imploded with five people on board while diving to the Titanic. Onboard the Titan was OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his 19 year-old son Suleman Dawood, along with British businessman Hamish Harding and French explorer Paul-Henri Nargeolet.
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".
Patrick Lahey has designed a $20 million submersible named the Triton 4000/2 Abyssal Explorer, which Connor has said could carry out the dive repeatedly. Connor also said that “Patrick has been thinking about and designing this for over a decade. But we didn’t have the materials and technology. You couldn’t have built this sub five years ago.”
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| Render of the Triton 4000/2 Abyssal Explorer; Image From Triton Submarines |
Shortly after the OceanGate tragedy, which occurred June 18th, 2023, Connor said he had called Lahey and asked him to build a better sub.
Lahey told the Wall Street Journal that, "[Connor 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".
Lahey had publicly criticized OceanGate's safety practices, and called its CEO, Stockton Rush, predatory.
Connor has not given a date for when the voyage will take place.
Lahey had publicly criticized OceanGate's safety practices, and called its CEO, Stockton Rush, predatory.
Connor has not given a date for when the voyage will take place.
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