Surviving OceanGate co-founder plans sub dive into "Portal to Hell" - National Zero

OceanGate co-founder Guillermo Söhnlein, who left the company a decade before its business model suddenly imploded during a Titanic tour last June, has launched a brand new undersea adventure tour concern called “Blue Marble,” now booking a trip to the bottom of Dean’s Blue Hole, a 663-foot deep sinkhole in the Bahamas that locals call the “Portal to Hell,” NewsNation reports. Blue Marble’s website sells the excursion as a unique “opportunity to discover the hidden secrets of cave-dwelling species, geological climate history and unique ecosystems.” NewsNation’s article states that the site had previously said that “Locals believe that Dean’s is a portal to hell and the devil himself lurks in the black depths.” They don’t explain why it was on the site “previously” rather than “currently,” but it’s not hard to imagine that Söhnlein might want to downplay any sort of superstitions going into such a hazardous environment, especially considering what happened to his former partner, Stockton Rush, and three […]