Joint Venture to Produce Manned Submersible

Cyclops Next Gen

Cyclops Sea Trials Begin

APL-UW — OceanGate Collaboration

Clarification June 2023: APL-UW collaborated with OceanGate on the shallow-water vehicle, CYCLOPS 1. APL-UW played a supporting role in the early development of CYCLOPS 2. Video editing may not fully capture the details of the partnership.

Cyclops is going to be a very useful tool for any organization, company or institution that needs to go underwater and perform tasks at depth without requiring a very expensive support ship and other apparatus that would be associated with a remotely operated vehicle.

We couldn’t have done it without the partnership. The Applied Physics Laboratory has effectively been our engineering partner.

Media Coverage

OceanGate unveils Cyclops sub to help businesses, researchers go deep

Xconomy Seattle, Benjamin Romano

OceanGate is unveiling Cyclops 1, a five-person submersible the company has retrofitted with simpler controls, creature comforts, and other technologies for streamlined operations. Development benefited from a unique partnership with APL-UW, a center of marine engineering and a critical piece of the Pacific Northwest%u2019s ocean innovation ecosystem.

10 Mar 2015

Company plans carbon-fiber sub to dive deeply, cheaply

The Seattle Times, Alisa Reznick

In collaboration with the University of Washington's Applied Physics Lab and Boeing's Research and Technology wing, OceanGate co-founder Stockton Rush's "Cyclops" is being designed to take five passengers up to nearly 10,000 feet below the ocean's surface. It is expected to debut for charter use in 2016.

31 Oct 2013

UW, Everett company design deep-sea sub

Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Aubrey Cohen

A new bullet-shaped submarine that the University of Washington and a local company are developing would take people deeper than all but a handful of other craft.

8 Oct 2013

UW, local company building innovative deep-sea manned submarine

UW News & Information, Hannah Hickey

For the past 70 years, the University of Washington's Applied Physics Laboratory has conducted ocean research and engineering. Now they are teaming up with a local submersible company to build an innovative five-person submarine that would travel to almost 2 miles below the ocean%u2019s surface.

8 Oct 2013