OceanGate Suspends All Exploration And Commercial Operations

The firm that owned the doomed Titan submersible has suspended its commercial operations, it announced on its website.

OceanGate said it has ‘suspended all exploration and commercial operations’ after the sub imploded last month while on a voyage to the undersea wreckage of the Titanic off the coast of Canada.

All five people on board were killed, including UK citizens Hamish Harding and father and son Shahzada and Suleman Dawood.

CEO of OceanGate Expeditions, Stockton Rush, and the submersible’s pilot, French national Paul-Henri Nargeolet also died in the incident.

The US-company based in Washington announced the development via a banner on the homepage of its website.