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☆ OceanGate's cofounder wants to send 1,000 people to a floating colony on Venus by 2050, and says we shouldn't stop pushing the limits of innovation
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-28 | by ( Marianne Guenot | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

By 2050, he would like to see 1,000 humans living in the sulfuric acid clouds of Venus. The businessman's latest — and possibly grandest — endeavor is to send 1,000 humans to live in Venus' atmosphere by 2050. Söhnlein hasn't let the recent events dampen his ambition and claims humanity needs to continue pushing the limits of innovation. Sending humans to Earth's evil twinThough it's often called "Earth's twin," Venus doesn't seem like the ideal place for humans to thrive. The Titan submersible.

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☆ How Shazam Makes Unique Audio Fingerprints to Identify Songs
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-01 | by ( Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

What Drove OceanGate’s CEO: A Quest to Become ‘SpaceX for the Oceans’ OceanGate co-founder Guillermo Söhnlein talks with The Journal about the company’s original mission to help humanity unlock the secrets of the ocean and why CEO Stockton Rush eventually felt compelled to make the Titan, his own submersible. Photo Composition: Rachel Rogers

Persons: Guillermo Söhnlein, Stockton Rush, Rachel Rogers Organizations: SpaceX

☆ Titanic submersible: A robot is combing the sea floor for debris from the implosion as a multinational investigation begins
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-26 | by ( Nouran Salahieh Samantha Beech | Nouran Salahieh | Samantha Beech | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

The US Coast Guard has convened a Marine Board of Investigation to probe the implosion – the “highest level of investigation the Coast Guard conducts,” US Coast Guard chief investigator Capt. Military experts found debris from the ill-fated submersible about 1,600 feet from the bow of the Titanic on Thursday, the US Coast Guard previously said. “This case has been extremely complex, involving a coordinated international, interagency and private sector response in an unforgiving and difficult to access region of the ocean,” US Coast Guard Rear Adm. John Mauger, the First Coast Guard District commander, said Sunday. The Coast Guard announced the vessel suffered a “catastrophic implosion,” killing everyone on board. Pelagic's remotely operated vehicle Odysseus 6 is lifted out of the ocean after searching for debris from the Titan submersible on June 22, 2023.

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☆ Voice recordings and data from the mother ship that carried the Titanic-bound submersible before it imploded will be examined, investigators say
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-25 | by ( Nouran Salahieh Samantha Beech | Nouran Salahieh | Samantha Beech | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

“The content of those voice recordings could be useful in our investigation,” Fox said. Communications between the submersible and its mother ship will also likely be scrutinized. The ship could communicate with the submersible by text messages, and it’s required to communicate every 15 minutes, according to the archived website of OceanGate Expeditions. The vehicles will work to map out the vessel’s debris field, which is more than 2 miles deep in the North Atlantic, Mauger said. When asked for comment about Stanley’s email, a spokesman for OceanGate told CNN they were unable to provide any additional information at this time.

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☆ OceanGate co-founder defends safety record, says Titan development 'led to successful science expeditions'
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-23 | by ( Charles R. Davis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

The co-founder of OceanGate on Friday defended the company's commitment to safety. Guillermo Söhnlein said the Titan submersible was put through a "very robust" development program. Development of the Titan "certainly led to successful science expeditions to the Titanic," he said. "I think one of the issues that keeps coming up is everyone keeps equating certification with safety and is ignoring the 14 years of development of the Titan sub," Söhnlein told the BBC. The development program was indeed "very robust," Söhnlein said, "and certainly led to successful science expeditions to the Titanic."

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From the start, the plan had been to push boundaries — to go where no one had gone before, as Richard Stockton Rush III liked to say. One partner was experienced in start-ups and passionate about “making humanity a multiplanet species.” The other, Mr. Rush, was an aerospace engineer and investor with a family fortune. Rush founded OceanGate Expeditions, the company whose submersible is presumed to have imploded during an expedition to the Titanic, killing Mr. The founders’ goal for OceanGate, Mr. Sohnlein said, was to make deep-sea voyaging as accessible to wealthy tourists and researchers as entrepreneurs like Elon Musk had made space travel.

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Guillermo Söhnlein, who co-founded OceanGate with Stockton Rush in 2009, left the company in 2013, retaining a minority stake. Rush was piloting the Titan submersible on the trip that began on Sunday. He was very keenly aware of the risks of operating in the deep ocean environment, and he was very committed to safety," Söhnlein told Reuters. Questions about Titan's safety were raised in 2018 during a symposium of submersible industry experts and in a lawsuit by OceanGate's former head of marine operations, which was settled later that year. The Titan submersible, operated by OceanGate Expeditions to explore the wreckage of the sunken SS Titanic off the coast of Newfoundland, dives in an undated photograph.

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☆ Why U.S. investor Jay Bloom turned down seats on the doomed Titanic submersible
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-23 | by ( Joseph Ax | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

June 23 (Reuters) - For a year, Stockton Rush had tried to convince Las Vegas-based investor Jay Bloom to buy a couple of spots on his company's submersible so Bloom and his son could experience the once-in-a-lifetime thrill of visiting the deep-sea wreck of the Titanic. His son Sean, now 20, had been fascinated by the story of the doomed British passenger liner as a child. But the more Bloom read about the Titan submersible, the more concerned he grew about how safe it was. Bloom said Rush's confidence was unshakable. "He's a good guy, I really liked him, and I think he had good intentions.

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☆ OceanGate Expedition: Debris scattered across ocean floor could provide clues into the final moments of the Titanic-bound submersible
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-23 | by ( Elizabeth Wolfe Rob Frehse | Elizabeth Wolfe | Rob Frehse | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

“Those of us in the community that work at that depth know that that’s always a risk,” Sohnlein told CNN. “I’ve broken some rules to make this,” Rush told travel blogger Alan Estrada of the Titan in 2021. Victims grieved as intrepid adventurers, beloved family membersFrom left, Hamish Harding, Shahzada Dawood, Suleman Dawood, Paul-Henri Nargeolet and Stockton Rush. Bill Diamond, a friend of Shahzada Dawood, told CNN Wednesday that his friend was intelligent and perpetually curious. He said he didn’t think of Shahzada Dawood as an adventurist but believes he was aware of the Titan trip’s risks.

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The company also boasted of collaborations with reputable institutions that have since denied partnering with OceanGate on the submersible in question. The interior of OceanGate's Titan submersible is seen in 2018. It “hasn’t been used in a crewed submersible ever before,” he said in a video last year. OceanGate appears to have also overstated its relationships with two institutions widely respected for their innovation: Boeing and University of Washington. OceanGate had partnered with UW to create a different submersible before parting ways, the university said in a statement.

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