The company that operated a failed Titanic exploration trip that killed all five people on board confirmed on July 6 that it’s suspending “all exploration and commercial operations” in response to the deadly incident.
OceanGate announced the decision on its website just weeks after its Titan submersible vehicle imploded during a trip to visit the Titanic shipwreck in the North Atlantic. A previous version of the website shows the company had listed two trips to the Titanic scheduled for June 2024.
About a week ago, presumed human remains and debris from the disaster were brought ashore to Canada, the U.S. Coast Guard said. The possible remains and shattered bits of the submersible Titan were transported to St. John’s, Newfoundland, about 400 miles north of the accident site, by the Canadian-flagged vessel Horizon Arctic, according to the Coast Guard….