"I don't want to risk anybody else," Guillermo Söhnlein, the co-founder of OceanGate, recalled CEO Stockton Rush telling him years earlier

The co-founder of OceanGate says buying submarines from larger, certified companies was not an affordable option for their vision in making deep sea exploration accessible to the public. Guillermo Söhnlein testified at U.S. Coast Guard hearings into the Titan disaster today.

An image of debris of the Titan submersible recovered from the ocean floor and the crew's final message — "all good here" — were among the details shared Monday during the U.S.

The man who co-founded OceanGate alongside Stockton Rush will testify during week two of the U.S. Coast Guard’s hearing into the Titan disaster. Guillermo Söhnlein teamed up with Rush to launch OceanGate in 2009. He left the company in 2013 to pursue other opportunities related to deep-sea exploration, but retained a minority stake.

An “all good here” text was one of a handful sent by the crew of the Titan submersible shortly before it imploded in June 2023 while on its way to visit the wreck of the Titanic. The texts were shown during a hearing held by the Coast Guard’s Marine Board of Investigation on the Titan,