Tuesday, August 05, 2025

Titan implosion that killed all on board was 'preventable'

The US Coast Guard has determined the implosion of OceanGate's Titan submersible that killed all five people on board was "preventable", citing the company's "critically flawed" safety practices. A damning 335-page report from Coast Guard investigators states that OceanGate, the company that owned and operated the Titan, failed to follow maintenance and inspection protocols for the deep-sea vessel.

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The report condemns OceanGate's safety practices as fundamentally inadequate. It says the primary causal factor for the implosion was the firm's failure to follow "established engineering protocols" for safety and testing. There were "glaring disparities between their written safety protocols and their actual practices", the report states.

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Yeah, as in no one should have been on that death trap.

#1 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-08-05 03:16 PM

Titan's designers remind me of the non-engineer idiots who designed the world's tallest water slide.

The Boy Who Was Decapitated While Riding A Faulty Waterslide
Further investigation also found a disturbing lack of qualifications on the part of ride designer Jeff Henry. Henry was a high school dropout with no education in engineering.

When creating the slide, Henry and Schooley, who also had little experience in engineering, used "crude trial-and-error" methods to draw up plans for the slide.

"If we actually knew how to do this and it could be done that easily, it wouldn't be that spectacular," court documents reported Schooley stating.
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Also funny that the kid's father is a small government Republican who suddenly saw a need for regulating amusement park rides after his kid lost his head.

#2 | Posted by censored at 2025-08-05 05:24 PM

Verruckt! It broke ASTM guidelines that already existed before it was built. Cool concept and "water coasters" are still being introduced and improved. There's a few on cruise ships even but they focus on a smaller undulating ride without a massive drop and the jets propel you along.

There was also New Texas Giant. When Six Flags put it in, they refused the manufacturer recommendation to put in seat belts. They were afraid of employees inappropriately touching people's junk when checking the belts. It has intense negative G loads, which led to an obese lady slipping her restraints and being fired vertically out of the train to her death. It has seat belts now.

#3 | Posted by sitzkrieg at 2025-08-06 11:38 AM

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