The carbon fiber submersible Titan imploded on a tourist trip to the wreck of the Titanic in June 2023, killing the five ...
who helped found OceanGate with Stockton Rush. Sohnlein ultimately left the company before the Titan disaster in June 2023. Rush was among the five people who died when the submersible imploded.
A NASA employee testified during a weekslong hearing on the implosion of OceanGate's Titan submersible that the agency had disagreements over the sub maker's press materials mentioning NASA.