Submarine Tourism Is—for Now—a Booming Business

Triton vehicle into a business, charging passengers $750,000 for trips to the Mariana Trench starting in 2020. The Limiting Factor, as the vehicle was named, was the first designed to taxi passengers to the deepest point in the ocean. The expedition’s leaderas a “cocoon of titanium,” promising any prospective ticket holders a calm experience.

But even an expensive trip in a luxury submarine is still … a trip in a submarine . “Passengers should prepare to be in a very confined, pitch-dark space for hours,”Advertisementcredits him with shifting the landscape of deep ocean travel, which has slowly but surely been catching up to outer space in terms of rich-person tourism.

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The (incredibly expensive) Titanic tourism industry that just lost a submarineWhen OceanGate Expeditions began operations, they boasted of having the only privately\u002Downed vehicles capable of reaching the Titanic
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Behind the submarine tourism industry, where people pay $250,000 to visit the TitanicThe U.S. Coast Guard launched a rescue operation on Monday after a submersible tourist vessel went missing while on its way to the wreck of the Titanic in the Atlantic Ocean. The Titan, operated by the luxury travel company OceanGate Expeditions, disappeared 900 miles off the coast of Cape Cod, Mass., just one hour and 45 minutes into the dive.
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