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OceanGate, Inc.
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OceanGate Inc. is an American privately owned company based in Everett, Washington, that provided crewed submersibles for tourism, industry, research, and exploration. The company was founded in 2009 by Stockton Rush and Guillermo Söhnlein.
Key facts
- Company.name
- OceanGate Inc.
- Company.logo
- OceanGate logo.svg
- Company.image
- Cyclops 1 Submersible.jpg
- Company.image_caption
- Cyclops 1 submersible on display at Seattle's Museum of History & Industry (MOHAI)
- Company.type
- Private
- Company.industry
- Tourism, expeditions, underwater diving
- Company.founders
- Stockton Rush
- Company.hq_location
- Everett, Washington, U.S.
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- business
- Country
- United States
- Founded by
- Stockton Rush
- Headquarters
- Everett
- Official website
- oceangate.com
- Image
- OceanGate booth at 2020 Discover E Day.jpg
- Significant event
- Titan submersible implosion
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- official blog URL
- www.oceangate.com/news-and-media/blog.html
- Commons category
- OceanGate
- product or material produced
- submersible
- inception
- 2009-00-00
- director / manager
- Stockton Rush
- review score
- 2.8/5 (Average)
- contact page URL
- www.oceangate.com/about/contact-location.html
- privacy policy URL
- www.oceangate.com/privacy.html
- terms of service URL
- www.oceangate.com/terms.html
- social media followers
- 5040
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Encyclopedic overview
15 sectionsContents
- Background
- History
- 2009–2013: Founding and acquisition of ''Antipodes''
- 2013–2016: Construction of ''Cyclops'' and Söhnlein's departure
- 2016–2023: Expansion of fleet and dives to the ''Titanic''
- 2023–present: Implosion of ''Titan'', death of Rush, and suspension of operations
- Submersibles
- <span class="anchor" id="Antipodes"></span>''Antipodes''
- <span class="anchor" id="Cyclops"></span>''Cyclops 1''
- <span class="anchor" id="Titan"></span>''Titan''
- Associated entities
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
OceanGate Inc. is an American privately owned company based in Everett, Washington, that provided crewed submersibles for tourism, industry, research, and exploration. The company was founded in 2009 by Stockton Rush and Guillermo Söhnlein.
The company acquired a submersible vessel, Antipodes, and later built two of its own: Cyclops 1 and Titan. In 2021, OceanGate began taking paying tourists in Titan to visit the wreck of the Titanic. In 2022, the price to be a passenger on an OceanGate expedition to the Titanic shipwreck was $250,000 per person.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “OceanGate, Inc.” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.