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Oceangate quietly takes down websites, social media handles after Titan sub implosion

15 July 2023 13:07 (UTC +04:00)

Within a month of the disastrous end to the Titan submersible, OceanGate, the company which was facilitating the expedition to the Titanic wreckage, has shut down both of its websites and all of its social media accounts, APA reports citing WION.

At the time of the reporting, none of the social media handles and the website of OceanGate were accessible to the public.

The OceanGate and OceanGate Expeditions websites now redirect to a page that says the company "has suspended all exploration and commercial operations."

Their Facebook pages have been removed and Twitter and LinkedIn accounts have also been taken down.

Furthermore, the OceanGate Instagram account has been set to private.

As of this time, only the OceanGate Foundation’s website is active, although its Facebook page has already been taken down.

On June 22, the US Coast Guard had announced that all the five people on board the Titan submersible, including OpeaGate CEO Stockton Rush, died after the vessel imploded under sea.

The people who died were British billionaire businessman Hamish Harding, British father and son Shahzada and Suleman Dawood who had roots in Pakistan as one of its richest families, OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush and former French navy diver Paul-Henry Nargeolet.

The vessel went missing on June 18 within two hours of starting its trip to explore the wreckage of the famous Titanic ship which sank in 1912.

The US Coast Guard later recovered its debris and “presumed human remains” from the Titan wreckage.