Another billionaire hears the Titanic siren call

Two years ago, a guy named Stockton Rush was killed while driving his “experimental” submarine to the Titanic site. On board, the “Titan” was four other unhappy victims, including the Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood (described as a billionaire) and his teenage son. The Rush company, Oceangate, had earned money by courting rich customers and making them trips to the underwater site, but it all ended with an unfortunate implosion. Now another billionaire would have heard the call and sought to visit the deep and dark depths in which the centenary avatar for technological pride is.

“In addition to being a wreck of historical importance, the fact that it is at such a great depth makes the visit fascinating,” said Patrick Lahey, CEO of Submarines Triton. A source to the attention of the upcoming plans for an exhibition to the famous wreckage said to the post: “I heard that someone was going down to the Titanic in a few weeks. What I can tell you is that it is a billionaire. Check there will cost 10 million dollars. You would recognize their name.”

Unfortunately, the report does not say who is the billionaire, nor identifies the source. If the report is correct, we must however know the details early. A little over a year ago, the BBC reported that the billionaire of oil and real estate Larry Connor intended to visit the wreck of the Titanic, with the help of Lahey.

It should be noted that, as far as it can be discerned, most of the companies operating in the underwater tourism industry share very little in common with Oceangate, which was largely considered a shitty show, even before one of its trips kills five people, including its CEO. A report by the Coastal Guard Investigation Council published earlier this year details the various shortcomings of the company’s approach to underwater navigation, noting that the “design and test process” of Oceangate for its submersible Titan “have not addressed many fundamental engineering principles which are considered crucial to ensure the safety and reliability of operations”.

Just like an example of how the oceangate was crazy, Connor and Lahey previously declared that there was no calendar for their visit to the Titanic and that they would only dive on the site once their submarine was fully certified by a marine organization. This is what you are supposed to do. The Titan of Oceangate, on the other hand, has never been officially certified, according to the company. In addition, a trial previously asserted that the sub-bar window was certified only to travel 1,300 m underwater, despite the fact that the Titanic is almost 4,000 m under the waves.

Lahey, himself, previously weighed on the under-optimal commercial practices of Rush. “Oceangate tragedy was entirely avoidable,” he said in disaster. “There is no room for experimental vehicles in continuous human exploration of the deep sea,” he added. “If you want to take human beings to the deep sea, you need to be held at a higher level. And this high level, this high bar must be an accreditation certification. ”

The triton submarine, the explorer, vaguely resembles a coffee machine. “The abyssal explorer Triton 4km / 2 will be used to inspire, educate and advance oceanic research for future generations,” the company announced last year. Lahey’s company, Triton, manufactures submarines, but unlike Oceangate, does not offer private trips, a company spokesman told Gizmodo.

We do not know why billionaires are so obsessed with the ocean. Or space. It may be because these things are vast and obvious symbols of exploration and the unknown, and they desperately have the desire to write in history? Whatever reason, such concerns seem to betray a lack of imagination decided in the golden class. All their decision -making process is to look at the most important thing before them and to say to me: “I’m going to devote my life to this.”

In addition to wanting to cross it with their own submarines, various members of the oligarchy are also interested in colonizing it. Earlier this year, it was reported that a “deep pocket donor” was funded deeply, an effort to create a “permanent human colony” under the waves of the ocean.