Larry Connor is not only undeterred by the OceanGate disaster last year, but got on the phone with a rival firm days later asking it to build a better sub. He plans to make the 12,500ft trip with Patrick Lahey, whose Triton Submarines partnered with Connor on three dives into the Mariana Trench. Connor is worth about $2 billion from his firm Connor Group that invests in luxury apartment buildings, then sells them after an average of five-and-a-half years. Connor makes so much money that when he made a $1.6 million after-tax stock market windfall in 2020, he gave it to his staff....read
Ohio billionaire Larry Connor to dive 12,400ft in Triton submarine to visit Titanic shipwreck in the wake of OceanGate disaster
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