Titanic Subs: Expanding Access to the Deep Sea

OceanGate, a company founded by Stockton Rush in 2009, aims to help scientists and researchers unravel oceanic mysteries by giving them better access to the sea floor than ever before. Rush saw a way to use advances in materials sciences to craft a new type of sub that would be oblong, rather than spherical, and made with carbon fiber. The design would carry five people and would give scientists and deep-sea adventurers alike more room. The company's novel submersible Titan was reported overdue Sunday night off Newfoundland, with Rush and four others onboard, spurring a desperate international search.