Billionaire plans to take sub to Titanic site to prove it’s safer after OceanGate disaster [Video]

A billionaire in America is planning to take a submersible to the shipwreck of the Titanic to prove the industry is safer in the aftermath of the OceanGate disaster.

In June last year, five people were killed on board a deep-sea submersible after the vessel imploded during a dive to the wreck of the Titanic.

The sub, called Titan, was owned by OceanGate, and the company’s CEO, Stockton Rush, was one of those who died in the tragedy.

Communications were lost with the Titan one hour and 45 minutes after it set off, sparking a major search for the 21-foot-long vessel that had just 96-hours of emergency oxygen and limited rations on board.

Now, an Ohio billionaire has made it his mission to plunge almost 2.5 miles down to the Titanic wreck in an effort to prove that the industry is safer now.

Real estate investor Larry Connor said he and Triton Submarines co-founder Patrick Lahey will plunge more than 12,400 …