OceanGate

OceanGate Inc. provides subsea manned submersible solutions for commercial, research, and military applications.

In 2009, Stockton Rush and Guillermo Söhnlein, successful businessmen with close ties to the aerospace and technology industries, founded OceanGate Inc., an ocean exploration venture focused on providing manned submersible solutions which enable researchers to access the oceans' vast resources. Taking an early lead in an emerging market, Stockton and Guillermo recognized that private industry funding and utilization of modern materials could have a major impact on their ability to explore earth's deep oceans while significantly lowering the cost of entry for subsea initiatives. During the first two-and-a-half years of operations, using a disciplined cost/benefit analysis, Stockton and Guillermo evaluated undersea technologies and acquired the submersible Antipodes, two robotic vehicles, various support vessels, and multiple pieces of support equipment. From the beginning, OceanGate has sought to develop strategic partnerships in order to leverage outside expertise for client objectives. These partnerships have enabled us to deploy innovative and often proprietary technology to recover historical artifacts, map and document shipwrecks, as well as observe and record marine life and underwater habitats. One of the earliest OceanGate partners, Teledyne BlueView Technologies, has worked with us to install advanced multi-beam sonar systems on all OceanGate equipment.