Co-founded by CEO Stockton Rush in 2007, OceanGate began providing private tourist excursions to the famous ocean cruise liner’s wreckage aboard its 22-foot-long Titan submersible in 2021. For years,

Businessman Guillermo Sohnlein, who helped found OceanGate with Rush, ultimately left the company before the Titan disaster.

Newly released footage shows the high-tech salvaging of debris from the Titan submersible wreck — as the co-founder of the company that made it told investigators that he hopes the deadly disaster does not spell “the end of deep ocean exploration.