Another Billionaire Plans To Take Sub To 'Titanic-Level Depths' After OceanGate Tragedy
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Deep-sea explorer Patrick Lahey and billionaire real estate investor Larry Connor want to prove submersible trips are safe after last year's fatal tragedy.
Patrick Lahey, the CEO and co-founder of Triton Submarines, wants to calm people’s fears surrounding submersibles.
The deep-sea explorer and billionaire real estate investor Larry Connor are developing a new vessel to visit the famed Titanic shipwreck and prove submersible trips are safe following last year’s OceanGate debacle that led to five people dying aboard its Titan sub.
“This tragedy had a chilling effect on people’s interest in these vehicles,” Lahey told The Wall Street Journal in a story published last week. “It reignited old myths that only a crazy person would dive in one of these things.”
“We had a client, a wonderful man,” he added. “He called me up 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.’”
That client happened to be none other than Connor, who has used his $2 billion net worth to travel to the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the ocean, and the International Space Station. Connor contacted Lahey within days of the Titan implosion.
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