As other entrepreneurs push the edges of technology to bring well-heeled tourists to space, Stockton Rush saw new opportunities for exploring another frontier: the deep sea. OceanGate, the company he founded in 2009, sought not just to profit from bringing wealthy adventurers to sites such as the wreck of the Titanic, but to help scientists and researchers unravel oceanic mysteries by giving them better access to the sea floor than ever before — in vessels that would break the boundaries of how submersibles are developed. “One of the reasons I started the business was because I didn’t understand why we were spending 1,000 times as much money to explore space as we were to explore . the oceans,” Rush told a conference held by GeekWire, a Seattle tech news website, last year.
As other entrepreneurs have pushed the edge of technology to bring well-heeled tourists to space, Stockton Rush saw new opportunities for exploring another frontier: the deep sea.
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As other entrepreneurs push the edges of technology to bring well-heeled tourists to space, Stockton Rush saw new opportunities for exploring another frontier: the deep sea. OceanGate, the company he founded in 2009, sought not just to profit from bringing wealthy adventurers to sites such as the wreck of the Titanic, but to help scientists and researchers unravel oceanic mysteries by giving them better access to the sea floor than ever before — in vessels that would break the boundaries of how submersibles are developed. “One of the reasons I started the business was because I didn’t understand why we were spending 1,000 times as much money to explore space as we were to explore . the oceans,” Rush told a conference held by GeekWire, a Seattle tech news website, last year.