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An Everett company is boldly going to where few have gone before. It will visit the Titanic where it rests at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. And the expedition will do it using impressive technology.

鈥淭ake some of that new expertise in materials and put it into the submersible world where they had been making things out of steel and titanium, but not carbon fiber,鈥� said Stockton Rush, CEO of OceanGate. 鈥淭his will be the largest carbon fiber submersible ever made, and the only one operating.鈥�

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That machine is Cyclops. It weighs 19,000 pounds and spans 22-feet-by-9.2-feet-by-8.3-feet with a carbon fiber hull. It boasts the largest viewing port of any deep-diving submersible. Its max speed is 3 knots — forward or up-and-down.

鈥淥ne of the things they say is that speed is the enemy of observation,鈥� Rush said.

It will give research crews plenty of time to observe the famous sunken ship through a series of trips in 2018. Cyclops can carry five people on a standard 8-hour trip. For the 2018 trips, it will carry three specialists, a researcher and a pilot. Reservations聽have already filled up.聽The teams will spend a week at sea and get a minimum of three dives during that time 鈥� possibly more depending on the weather.

OceanGate鈥檚 Titanic mission

The Titanic sunk on April 15, 1912. Today it rests 12,500 feet below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean, 380 miles off the coast of Newfoundland.

The purpose of the 2018 trips will be to provide researchers access to the sunken ship. OceanGate鈥檚 goals will be to document the wreckage with high-definition photography and video; document the flora and fauna throughout the ship; capture data missing from the scientific record; and create a detailed 3D model of the shipwreck and debris field.

鈥淢ost of the time, the images you see from the deep ocean are from robots,鈥� Rush said. 鈥淢ost people don鈥檛 appreciate that there aren鈥檛 people taking those pictures, those are robots on a long line. We will be the only privately-owned sub to be able to go to that depth, in operation.鈥�

鈥淭he tourist dives done in the past were on Russian subs and they weren鈥檛 on a research dive. They were a tourist operation,鈥� he added.

Unlike the Russian subs, OceanGate will have more聽time. It took previous subs about 2.5 hours to descend to the depth of the Titanic. And then another 2.5 hours to go back up to the surface.

鈥淲ith Cyclops, we will have that below an hour and a half,鈥� Rush said.

OceanGate was founded seven years ago. It is headquartered in Everett, where it worked to develop and use the newest technology to explore underwater. For example, the carbon fiber that Rush mentioned is far lighter than materials traditionally used to make submarines, yet it maintains great strength.

Since its founding, the company has run expeditions in the Gulf of Mexico, explored the wreck of the SS Andrea Doria off the coast of Nantucket, and has explored Alcatraz Island. OceanGate will often take passengers ranging from explorers, filmmakers, or oil and gas executives on underwater trips.