OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush enthused about being "outside of the box" in a talk last year. The maker of the doomed Titan submersible called regulations "over-the-top." It was far from the first time ...

China's three deep-sea manned submersibles have completed 1,746 dives to date, the Institute of Deep-sea Science and ...

(Reuters) -The first fatal accident aboard a deep-sea tourist submersible is certain to raise calls for additional safety regulations, but industry experts say any new measures may be impossible to ...

ALAMEDA - Manned-submersibles have been used since the late 1950s to explore the ocean floor, and one of the pioneers of the technology is a Bay Area native. KPIX sat down with him to discuss the ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Is he a mad scientist or an ocean pioneer uncovering the mysteries of the deep? New Scientist magazine says inventor-engineer Graham Hawkes is on the cutting edge of undersea ...

An extensive search and rescue operation is underway to locate a commercial submersible that went missing during a dive to the Titanic shipwreck. According to the US Coast Guard, contact with the ...

Charles Kohnen, co-founder of the submersible manufacturer SEAmagine Hydrospace, estimates 200 manned vessels are worldwide. Some are used by scientific institutions, others for tourism, and a growing ...

Robert D. Ballard, director of the Center for Marine Exploration and senior scientist at the Deep Submergence Laboratory at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, received the Robert ...