An Ohio businessman and billionaire Larry Connor is set to prove that a dive to the Titanic wreckage site can be done safely when proper engineering is employed.
The billionaire is set to take a $20 M Submarine to the Titanic site.
Connor, a real estate investor from Dayton, plans to travel over 12,400 feet to the wreckage in a submersible designed by Triton Submarines co-founder Patrick Lahey.
The $20 million vessel, named the Triton 4000/2 Abyssal Explorer, can make repeated voyages. Connor aims to show people worldwide that the ocean can be both powerful and enjoyable if approached correctly.
This comes just an year after the OceanGate Titan submersible disaster which killed 5.
Shortly after news broke in June 2023 of the Titan's suspected implosion, Connor called up Triton Submarine's CEO Patrick Lahey, who had publicly criticized OceanGate's safety practices and called its CEO "predatory," and insisted they could and should make something better.
Connor is a known explorer, having previously voyaged to the Mariana Trench and International Space Station, told news outlets he wants to prove that a deep-sea submersible can be made safely and such a trip can be done "without disaster."
