OceanGate said it is suspending “all exploration and commercial operations” after five people were killed — including the company’s CEO Stockton Rush — during a deep-sea expedition to the wreckage of the Titanic.
A notice announcing the suspension of services appeared in red letters in the top corner of the company’s website on Thursday.
It comes two weeks after a search for OceanGate’s missing submersible culminated in tragedy. The 22-foot carbon-fiber and titanium craft vanished shortly after it dipped beneath the waters of the Atlantic Ocean on June 18. It lost contact with the Polar Prince, the support ship that transported the vessel to the site, about 1 hour and 45 minutes into its descent
