# How many trips to the Titanic did the Titan make? apologies for another thread about this craft **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 24, 2023, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-trips-to-the-titanic-did-the-titan-make-apologies-for-another-thread-about-this-craft/986051 "2023-06-24T15:44:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sigene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@Sigene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigene)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2023, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-trips-to-the-titanic-did-the-titan-make-apologies-for-another-thread-about-this-craft/986051/1 "2023-06-24T15:44:22Z")
I’m getting mixed information and its a bit obfuscated. I know it made several ‘test’ dives at various depths and attempted to go to the Titanic a few times that were aborted. But I’m not getting good information on how many times it actually successfully made the trip to the Titanic. One source said it was once a year thing, this last being the third time. Others have said ‘multiple’ trips, and I was under the impression that there were 5 scheduled for this year where 4 were canceled for weather etc. So…Simply, How many successful trips to the Titanic did it make. And as a bonus, is there any information on how many other trips it made to that depth or greater (not at the Titanic site)? ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2023, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-trips-to-the-titanic-did-the-titan-make-apologies-for-another-thread-about-this-craft/986051/2 "2023-06-24T23:52:13Z")
According to USA Today, OceanGate made its first trip in 2021. By January 2023, OceanGate was saying that it had taken about 60 customers and 15-20 researchers down to _Titanic_. Note that the article says that on at least one trip, they didn’t find _Titanic_ at all. But another article says that they took down about 100 overall in the summer of 2021. If we say about 100 people, that’s around 20 trips, but I can’t find a definite number. Might be a bit more? > **[Patents, lawsuits, safety concerns — then tragedy. A timeline of OceanGate's...](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/06/22/timeline-oceangate-founding-expedition-history/70344305007/)** > > Timeline: History of how OceanGate developed and promoted its Titan submersible to take tourists to the Titanic > **[Titanic’s famous bathtub reappears, as shipwreck continues to decay](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/titanic-captain-bathtub-disappear-b1940601.html)** > > More than 100 years after it sunk, killing 1500 people, the wreck of the Titanic is deteriorating rapidly due to metal-eating bacteria ---
**Author:** ![Sigene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@Sigene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigene)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2023, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-trips-to-the-titanic-did-the-titan-make-apologies-for-another-thread-about-this-craft/986051/3 "2023-06-25T01:28:05Z")
20 trips to the titanic seems inordinately large. I know they only had 5 planned this year, and this last one was the only one that wasn’t aborted before reaching depth. According to your link the first trip to the Titanic was July 2021. So they had to do all of those trips in the last half of 2021 and 2022. And this site says ‘at least 28 last year’ visited which means 6 dives to the titanic in 2022. [https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/21/us/oceangate-expeditions-submersible-titanic/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/21/us/oceangate-expeditions-submersible-titanic/index.html) I suspect the 20 you suggest for dives involved a high number that were called off for whatever reason and not actually successful in reaching the titanic. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2023, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-trips-to-the-titanic-did-the-titan-make-apologies-for-another-thread-about-this-craft/986051/4 "2023-06-25T11:33:29Z")
I have some recollection of deep sea submersible hulls having a lifetime due to stress from pressure changes, that each trip cause more damage the integrity of the hull. ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2023, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-trips-to-the-titanic-did-the-titan-make-apologies-for-another-thread-about-this-craft/986051/5 "2023-06-28T16:48:54Z")
Well, a team has managed to recover the Titan and return it to land for investigation: > **[Debris from implosion of Titanic-bound submersible is returned to land](https://apnews.com/article/titan-submersible-investigation-debris-titanic-a496c18ad4b9fe51cc65c88c5435a283)** > > Debris from the lost submersible Titan has been returned to land after a fatal implosion during its voyage to the wreck of the Titanic captured the world’s attention last week. ---
**Author:** ![Sigene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@Sigene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigene)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2023, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-trips-to-the-titanic-did-the-titan-make-apologies-for-another-thread-about-this-craft/986051/6 "2023-06-28T16:52:27Z")
I’ve since found a video that stated 6 successful dives to titanic in 2021 and 7 in 2022. then the ill fated 1 in 2023 ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2023, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-trips-to-the-titanic-did-the-titan-make-apologies-for-another-thread-about-this-craft/986051/7 "2023-09-02T03:49:38Z")
I’ve found an article that confirms those numbers: 13 successful dives that reached Titanic, out of a total of 90 attempts, for a success rate of 14%. > **[Titan sub had 14 percent success rate, investigation finds](https://www.unilad.com/news/titan-sub-implosion-news-update-522031-20230710)** > > The Titan sub had just a 14 percent success rate according to an unearthed OceanGate company passenger waiver