Billionaire travelling to Titanic to prove trip still safe [Video]

As the one-year anniversary of the implosion of the OceanGate submersible approaches, a billionaire from Ohio says he wants to attempt the same journey that the Titan tragically failed to complete.

Larry Connor, a Dayton real estate investor, co-founded Triton Submarines with Patrick Lahey, and the pair are planning to take a two-person submersible more than two miles down into the ocean to pay the site of the Titanic wreckage a visit.

“I want to show people worldwide that while the ocean is extremely powerful, it can be wonderful and enjoyable and really kind of life-changing if you go about it the right way,” Connor told the Wall Street Journal.

The duo will make the journey in a $20 million submersible called the Triton 4000/2 Abyssal Explorer that Lahey designed with the intention of making the dive multiple times.

“Patrick has been thinking about and designing this for over a decade. But we …