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The Titanic is overrated, deep-sea explorers say. The wealthy keep venturing to it anyway.
The Titanic is an iconic wreckage site that continues to draw in wealthy tourists. But deep-sea ex…
Lloyd Lee
One year after Titan tragedy, another billionaire wants to prove deep-sea exploration is safe
A year after the Titan submersible imploded, killing five people, an Ohio real estate investor aims…
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Scientists discovered the strangest sea slug in the ocean
Researchers were baffled by a bioluminescent mollusk that lives in the deep ocean. They just discov…
Jenny McGrath
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OceanGate co-founder thinks about the Titan implosion daily but still wants to make deep-sea exploration accessible
Guillermo Söhnlein, the OceanGate co-founder who left the company in 2013, told BI that the fatal T…
Lloyd Lee
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WATCH: Rare giant squid with ‘headlight’ tentacles spotted attacking underwater camera!
The Dana octopus squid is a deep-sea creature known for its considerable size and unique biological…
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Vintage photos show how deep sea diving and exploration has evolved over the years
Things have come a long way since the diving bell. Humans have gone down more than 1,000 feet with …
James Pasley
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Deep-sea explorers captured the first ever photos of a long-lost Japanese shipwreck from World War II's Battle of Midway
The 855-foot aircraft carrier Akagi was struck by aerial bombs during the Battle of Midway, a major…
Erin Snodgrass
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Billionaire investor Ray Dalio says deep-sea exploration is no riskier than driving a car if safety standards are met
Manned submersible diving is "very safe" - and is no riskier than taking a commercial flight or dri…
Joseph Wilkins
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A deep-sea explorer who once teamed up with OceanGate says a 2010 California dive turned into a fiasco that left the sub damaged
An OceanGate expedition was cut short when one of the batteries on the sub was accidentally flooded…
Rebecca Cohen,Matthew Loh,Kel…
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Scientists discovered a field of deep-sea hot springs after following a trail of crabs like breadcrumbs on the ocean floor
Scientists near the Galápagos Islands followed the crabs, or squat lobsters, until they found the d…
Kelsey Vlamis
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A famed deep-sea explorer and former Navy officer says OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush ignored all warnings about his Titanic sub but no one could stop him because 'there's no international police force on the high seas'
Victor Vescov said Rush "thought he was going to be the Elon Musk of the ocean" despite the entire …
Matthew Loh
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The wreck of a legendary WWII US submarine has been found at the bottom of the South China Sea
Underwater drones and photogrammetry helped capture stunning images that confirmed the legendary US…
Mia Jankowicz
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The Titan tragedy will join the Byford Dolphin accident as one of the most gruesome deep-sea incidents in history
The Titan sub is a tragedy and joins the 1983 Byford Dolphin explosive decompression accident that …
Jenny McGrath,Chris Panella
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What is OceanGate? Meet the company that made a business out of risky deep-sea tours of the Titanic shipwreck.
The vessel at the center of the search and rescue effort, Titan, is operated by OceanGate. Its CEO …
Grace Mayer
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OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush decided to sell deep-sea dives to the Titanic because 'it's such an iconic thing underwater'
Stockton Rush told Insider in 2020 that "if you ask somebody what's underwater, they're going to sa…
Sonam Sheth
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Titan sub disaster should make sea-exploration industry rethink taking tourists to such remote locations, says expert
Exploration industry must 'reflect on bringing passengers to such remote locations and such great d…
Sinéad Baker
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Magellan, the company that mapped the Titanic wreck, is trying to scramble its deep-sea scanning equipment to help locate the lost sub
The sea exploration firm, which helped produce 3D scans of the wreck, is trying to help the rescue …
Sindhu Sundar
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James Cameron suggests OceanGate lacked 'rigor and discipline' as he called for more regulations on deep-sea vessels after Titan sub disaster
The "Titanic" movie director on Tuesday called the catastrophic implosion of OceanGate's Titan sub …
Natalie Musumeci
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The race to find the Titanic sub reveals how ill-equipped the US Coast Guard is in dealing with deep-sea disasters, expert says
The US Coast Guard has scrambled to obtain the specialist equipment necessary to locate a sub that …