Real-life Tony Stark, Larry Connor plans his next adventure to Titanic wreck a year after OceanGate
billionaire Larry Connor is embarking on a bold venture, planning a return expedition to the Titanic wreck despite the tragic implosion of the Titan submersible last year. Connor, a real estate investor worth an estimated $2 billion, is teaming up with Patrick Lahey, co-founder and CEO of Triton Submarines, to develop a new, state-of-the-art submersible for this ambitious mission.
At 74 years old, the Dayton, Ohio native recently announced his intention to take a submersible to the Atlantic seabed, aiming to go beyond the previous OceanGate expedition and prove that safe trips to the Titanic wreckage are feasible.
But who is Larry Connor?
Connor is the owner of the Connor Group, a real estate investment firm in Dayton. Graduating from Ohio University in 1972, he went on to purchase the Orlando Computer Group, which later became the second-largest re-seller of IBM microcomputers in Florida. In 1992, he co-founded Connor, Murphy & Buhrman, which eventually evolved into the Connor Group after he bought out his partners.
Connor's financial success has enabled him to pursue his other passions, taking him to the depths of the planet and into orbit. Like a real-life Tony Stark, Connor raced formula cars in the 1980s and continued racing into the 2000s. In 2003, his team won the Petit Le Mans, an endurance race held at Road Atlanta, and also triumphed in the Baja 1000, an off-road race on the Baja California Peninsula.
Not content with racing, Connor developed a
