The new submersible will be built by Triton Submarines and designed by the company's co-founder Patrick Lahey.
He and Connor will travel in the craft - known as the Triton 4000/2 Abyssal Explorer - to the wreck site of the famous liner.Island unveils 'sea beast' submarine"I want to show people worldwide that while the ocean is extremely powerful, it can be wonderful and enjoyable and really kind of life-changing if you go about it the right way," he said.
The submersible has been designed with new technology that has only become available over recent years, Connor said.The wreckage of the Titanic has been at the bottom of the North Atlantic since 1912. "Patrick has been thinking about and designing this for over a decade. But we didn't have the materials and technology," Connor said. "You couldn't have built this sub five years ago."wreck site.
Those killed in last year's disaster at the Titanic wreck site were Stockton Rush, the submersible pilot and chief executive officer of OceanGate; two members of a prominent Pakistani family, Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman Dawood; British adventurer Hamish Harding; and Titanic expert Paul-Henri Nargeolet.Continue reading