OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush crashed a submersible on dive to Andrea Doria wreck years before Titan disaster: ‘He wouldn’t listen’
Rush insisted on piloting a Cyclops submersible to the Andrea Doria wreck off Massachusetts in the summer of 2016, OceanGate ...
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Safety, Not Money, Comes First for Frazer-Based Divers on Expeditions to World’s Most Elusive Wrecks
Simply paying to get on the Andrea Doria expedition does not work. Donnelly will lead an invite-only expedition to the wreck ...
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Gateshead diver Steven Slater died after 'rapid ascent' from shipwreck
A luxury Italian liner, the Andrea Doria sank in July 1956 following a crash with a Swedish liner in thick fog. It has become known as the "Everest of Wreck Diving" after more than a dozen divers ...
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Gateshead diver Steven Slater dies exploring US wreck
Andrea Doria was an Italian luxury liner which sank in July 1956 following a collision with a Swedish liner in thick fog. Since then, it has become known as the "Everest of Wreck Diving" after ...
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Day three of Titan disaster hearing features testimony from former dive passenger
10:44 a.m. Rojas paid $20,000 to dive in the Cyclops 1 to the Andrea Doria. 10:42 a.m. Rojas went on an Explorer’s Club expedition and dived in a submersible to the HHS Britanic ship not with ...
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Who Owns Lost Ships?
But when human beings find and covet a wreck—for its historical value, its diving possibilities ... The Italian luxury liner Andrea Doria The law of finds has held sway even in cases concerning ...
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Titan submersible malfunctioned days prior to the fatal dive, former scientific director testifies
Rush was involved in a submersible crash in 2016, when he panicked while piloting the Cyclops 1 submersible during a dive to the Andrea Doria shipwreck, according to David Lochridge, a former ...
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Diving to Drink a 19th-Century Shipwreck’s Treasure
If their dive was successful, the group would be bringing up not gold, jewels or other archetypal shipwreck loot. Instead, it was aiming to retrieve a few scoops of 145-year-old rye seeds.
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Did the former OceanGate CEO panic and throw a controller on a previous submersible voyage? A former dive passenger doesn’t think so.
Former OceanGate Mission Specialist Renata Rojas was a passenger on numerous dives with OceanGate including one trip down to the Titanic on the Titan in 2022. Rojas, the fifth witness to testify ...
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Divers Recover 300-Year-Old Glass Onion Bottles From a Shipwreck Off the Coast of Florida
The fragile 18th-century containers, which likely held alcoholic beverages that were shared among passengers and crew members ...
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A haunting final message and other takeaways from the Coast Guard inquiry into the Titan submersible implosion
Rojas also gave an account of a 2016 submersible crash during a dive to the Andrea Doria shipwreck that differed from Lochridge’s version of the episode. Rush panicked while piloting the Cyclops ...
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Captain Robert J. Archambault
He had a life-long love of SCUBA diving, and made countless dives on all notable East Coast wrecks, including the famed Andrea Doria. He was the subject of many books and articles on the subject ...