Triton Submarines is an American company that designs and manufactures submersibles for research, filming, deep-ocean exploration, and the superyacht and high-end tourism sectors.
In 2010, Bridgewater Associates billionaire Ray Dalio approached Lahey, Jones and Triton to build him a personal submersible.
This relationship would later prove crucial, as less than two years later Triton faced what CEO Lahey describes as a financial "extinction event" due to supply chain problems with the business.
[10][11][12][13] In 2022, DSV Limiting Factor was sold to Inkfish, an ocean exploration and research group owned by Gabe Newell.
[14] In May 2024, it was announced that Ohio real estate billionaire, and private space astronaut, Larry Connor, commissioned the design and building of a $20 million submersible, the Triton 4000/2 Abyssal Explorer, and planned to voyage to the wreck of the OceanGate Titan submersible implosion with Triton Submarines co-founder Patrick Lahey to prove that a journey to the site is possible, and safe, and that the industry had made improvements in the wake of the OceanGate implosion.