The claim: OceanGate announced plans to send 1,000 people to Venus by 2050
An Aug. 1 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) claims the company behind a recent maritime catastrophe is gearing up for a new expedition to another planet.
"Exactly a month ago, a submersible called Titan manufactured by Oceangate imploded taking lives of five billionaires including Pakistani father-son duo Shahzada and Suleman Dawood and now the company has announced to build a colony on Venus expressing plans to send 1,000 people to the planet by 2050,” reads part of the post.
It was shared more than 30 times in one week.
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OceanGate Expeditions has suspended all explorations and business operations in light of its fatal expedition to the Titanic wreckage site in June. An OceanGate co-founder who left the company in 2013 has said he wants to explore sending a floating colony to the planet with a separate venture, Humans2Venus.
Söhnlein defends OceanGate, exploring Venus expedition through separate venture
OceanGate’s Titan submersible lost contact with its mothership about 90 minutes after launching toward the ocean floor to explore the Titanic wreckage on June 18. Search crews found pieces of the vessel in a debris field on the ocean floor days later. All five passengers on board, including OceanGate CEO and co-founder Stockton Rush, were announced dead.
OceanGate’s website says the...
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