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You know what they say: If a horse crushes you into a puff of dust, you get right back on. Or something along those lines.

An Ohio billionaire is planning to take a deep-sea submersible to the Titanic to prove the industry is safer in the wake of the doomed OceanGate vessel that imploded last year.

Real estate investor Larry Connor said he and Triton Submarines co-founder Patrick Lahey will plunge more than 3.7 kilometres to the famous shipwreck in a two-person submersible.

Lahey has designed a $20 million (R364,112,000) vessel dubbed the Triton 4000/2 Abyssal Explorer, which Connor said can carry out the voyage repeatedly. The duo said they want to prove that the trek can be done without disaster — despite the implosion of the Titan submersible in June last year.

“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.”

According to Lahey, Connor phoned him a few days after the ill-fated Titan trip to discuss building a ‘better sub’.

“He said, you know, what we need to do is build a sub that can dive to Titanic-level depths repeatedly and safely and demonstrate to the world that you guys can do that, and that Titan was a contraption.’”

Lahey was among the critics in the deep sea adventure industry who accused OceanGate of questionable safety standards, calling Rush’s approach “quite predatory.”