One year after Titan tragedy, another billionaire wants to prove deep-sea exploration is safe

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A year after the Titan submersible imploded, killing five people, an Ohio real estate investor aims to prove that exploring Titanic-level depths is safe.

Investigators looking into the Titan sub disaster say finding answers is 'complex' and will take longer than expected

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A side view of the Titan submersible, a large white cylindrical vessel with a rounded front with a small porthole, in water.
The Titan submersible.

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A Vegas investor invited to go on OceanGate's submersible said he made up an excuse to get out of the trip because he didn't trust Stockton Rush's safety claims

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Stockton Rush and OceanGate Titan
Jay Bloom (left) and the OceanGate's Titan submersible (right)

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OceanGate co-founder thinks about the Titan implosion daily but still wants to make deep-sea exploration accessible

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Side-by-side portrait of OceanGate co-founders Guillermo Söhnlein and Stockton Rush
Guillermo Söhnlein, left, co-founded OceanGate with the late Stockton Rush, right, in 2009.

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He once rode in the Titan submersible but didn't realize how close he came to death until a year after its fatal dive

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Four men sit inside the small hull of OceanGate's Titan submersible.
Karl Stanley, far left, dove inside an earlier version of OceanGate's Titan submersible with the company's CEO, Stockton Rush.

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Stockton Rush reportedly wanted OceanGate to build underwater doomsday bunkers for billionaires

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Stockton Rush, CEO of OceanGate exhibitions.
Stockton Rush was CEO of OceanGate.

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James Cameron says the OceanGate submersible rescue morphed into a 'crazy' operation when 'we all knew they were dead'

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James Cameron/the Titan submersible
James Cameron/the Titan submersible

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Ohio man plans to take a 2-person submersible to Titanic depths to show the industry is safe after the OceanGate tragedy

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The Titan submersible.

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Image shows the last remaining debris from the Titan submersible implosion recovered by the Coast Guard

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titanium endocarp of the titan submersible
The US Coast Guard recovered the aft titanium endcap from the Titan submersible, in the North Atlantic Ocean, Sunday, Oct. 1, 2023. The endcap was recently recovered from the seafloor and successfully transferred to a U.S. port for analysis.

(U.S. National Transportation Safety Board via AP)

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