OceanGate co-founder says he hopes submersible tragedy yields renewed interest in exploration

The co-founder of the company that owned the experimental submersible that imploded en route to the wreckage of the Titanic said he hopes the legacy is a renewed interest in exploration. Businessman Guillermo Sohnlein, who helped found OceanGate with Stockton Rush, told a Coast Guard panel on Monday that “this can't be the end of deep ocean exploration.” Sohnlein ultimately left the company before the Titan disaster in June 2023. Rush was among the five people who died when the submersible imploded.