US real estate investor Larry Connor of Dayton, Ohio has teamed up with Triton Submarines co-founder Patrick Lahey in a plan to descend more than 3.7km to the Titanic site in a two-person submersible to prove sub travel done “the right way” is safe.
Triton CEO, Patrick Lahey has designed a $AUD30 million vessel called the Triton 4000/2 Abyssal Explorer.
“Patrick has been thinking about and designing this for over a decade,” Connor said. “But we didn’t have the materials and technology. You couldn’t have built this sub five years ago.”
“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 added.
In August 2019, Triton carried out an historic dive to the depths of the North Atlantic to survey the wreck of the Titanic with a team of international deep-sea explorers on board.
