Triton Submarines

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.

CEO Patrick Lahey (right) aboard Triton DSV Limiting Factor
DSV Limiting Factor, pictured during sea trials