Tuesday, August 05, 2025
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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More Alternate links: Google News | Twitter 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. Comments
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