Catherine Rusoff
Five people boarded OceanGate Titan Submersible last summer to dive to see the wreckage of the Titanic, but less than two hours later the ship imploded, killing everyone on board. Now, an Ohio billionaire wants to make his own attempt – an idea he came up with just days after the Titan met its fatal end.
Patrick Lahey, co-founder and president of Tritan Submarines, is no stranger to deep-diving expeditions. He was the second Canadian to visit the bottom of the Mariana Trench, nearly 36,000 feet below the ocean’s surface. He told the Wall Street Journal that he spent years working to make submersibles safe for deep diving, ensuring that his company’s vessels were proven safe. So when last year’s implosion happened – killing the ship superintendent and captain – there were concerns that no one would trust such expeditions again.
But a few days after the incident, Lahey told The Wall Street Journal that he received a call from a customer who seemed determined to build a safe and reliable submersible.
“He called me and said, ‘You know, what we need to do is build a submarine that can dive [Titanic-level depths] repeatedly and safely and demonstrate to the world that you can do this,” he said, “and that Titan was a contraption.”
Thus, the relationship between Lahey and the Ohio real estate mogul Larry Connor he was born.
Connor, a Dayton-based and leading luxury apartment building investor Connor Group, is worth about $2 billion, according to Forbes. Like Lahey, Connor also has an interest in the unknown. According to Forbes, he ventured to the Mariana Trench in 2021 and also went to the International Space Station in 2022.
He told The Journal that he hopes to show people that “although the ocean is extremely powerful, it can be wonderful and enjoyable and really change lives if you do it right.”
“Patrick has been thinking and designing this for over a decade. But we didn’t have the materials and the technology,” he told the outlet, saying he and Lahey plan to take a submarine to the Titanic wreckage in two. submersible person known as Abyssal Explorer Triton 4000/2.
According to the Triton website, the vessel is a “flexible, high-performance platform designed specifically for professional applications.” The company claims it can dive up to 4,000 feet below sea level and that “the world’s deepest diving acrylic submarine” is commercially certified for dives above 13,000 feet.
O remains of the Titanic are about 12,500 feet underwater, giving the submarine enough certified range to reach it. The imploded Titan submarine was not made of acrylic and only had a certified range of up to 1,300 meters, according to CBS News partner BBC.
The duo has not yet announced when the trip will take place.
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