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Engineering Was Flawed for Titan, NTSB Decides

Final report faults design, oversight, and missed warnings in disaster

(Newser) - The National Transportation Safety Board has concluded that OceanGate's "inadequate engineering process" led to the fatal 2023 implosion of its Titan submersible. According to the final 87-page report, OceanGate built the vessel with a carbon fiber pressure hull that did not meet essential strength and durability criteria....

Failed Adhesive Joint Likely Led to Submersible Disaster

5 deaths aboard OceanGate's Titan were 'preventable,' says the Coast Guard

(Newser) - The Coast Guard has wrapped up a two-year investigation into the deadly explosion of the Titan ocean submersible in 2023, and one salient point stands out:
  • "This marine casualty and the loss of five lives was preventable," said Jason Neubauer, chairman of the Coast Guard Marine Board of
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Submersible Implosion: 'What Was That Bang?'

Chilling video from support ship captures audio of Titan sub implosion

(Newser) - Chilling video from the support ship for the doomed Titan submersible captures the moment of the sub's fatal implosion. As she sat onboard the support ship, Wendy Rush, wife of OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush—one of five people aboard the sub—said, "What was that bang?" after hearing...

Titan Likely Heard Imploding in New Audio

Recording comes from NOAA device situated 900 miles from disaster site

(Newser) - A newly released audio recording is believed to have captured the implosion of OceanGate's Titan submersible near the wreck of the Titanic. The 20-second audio clip shared Friday by the US Coast Guard includes the "suspected acoustic signature" of the Titan's 2023 implosion deep in the Atlantic...

Engineer: OceanGate Didn't Test the Window We Built It

Another expert says sub reached depths three times the limit of the window

(Newser) - Wrinkles were found in the carbon fiber hull of OceanGate's Titan submersible a year before the sub imploded, an engineer with the National Transportation Safety Board testified Wednesday, the seventh day of a Coast Guard hearing expected to wrap up Friday. Don Kramer said flaws in the hull were...

'OceanGate Came Very, Very Close to Killing Me'

Sub expert who went on 2019 dive testifies at Coast Guard hearing

(Newser) - A submersible expert who testified at the Coast Guard's hearing on the catastrophic 2023 implosion of OceanGate's Titan submersible Tuesday recounted a harrowing 2019 experience he had aboard the first prototype of the sub. Karl Stanley, who owns a deep-sea diving expedition company, said he went down to...

OceanGate Co-Founder Testifies in Titan Hearing

Guillermo Sohnlein says company's goal was exploration, not profit

(Newser) - Former OceanGate operations director David Lochridge testified last week that the "whole idea" behind OceanGate was making money, but co-founder Guillermo Sohnlein described loftier goals on Monday. "We wanted to give humanity greater access to the ocean, specifically the deep ocean," said Sohnlein, the first witness to...

Titan Passenger: Sub Could Only 'Spin in Circles' After Malfunction

He says 2021 mission to Titanic was aborted

(Newser) - Fred Hagen, who made multiple dives as a paying customer on the Titan submersible and lived to tell the tale, described several worrying incidents Friday at the Coast Guard investigative hearing on the sub's implosion last year. Hagen was identified as a "mission specialist," a title OceanGate...

Testimony: Titan Sub Had Just Had a Malfunction

Scientific director of OceanGate says passengers were tossed around

(Newser) - Days before it imploded while headed to the Titanic wreckage last summer, the Titan submersible endured a malfunction, the company's scientific director testified Thursday. Steven Ross told a US Coast Guard panel that the experimental submersible had a platform problem that caused passengers aboard to "tumble about,"...

Whistleblower: OceanGate Was All About Making Money

Former operations director says Titan submersible tragedy could have been prevented

(Newser) - Former OceanGate operations director David Lochridge testified Tuesday at the Coast Guard hearing on the implosion of the Titan submersible, saying he had "no confidence whatsoever" in how it was built. Lochridge was one of the hearing's most anticipated witnesses, CBS News reports. He testified that he believed...

'I'm Not Getting in It,' Engineer Told OceanGate Boss

Tony Nissen testifies that he felt pressured to get Titan ready to dive

(Newser) - Tony Nissen, OceanGate's former engineering director, testified at a Coast Guard hearing Monday that he was fired after he expressed concerns about the Titan submersible and refused to greenlight a planned expedition. He said he felt pressured by OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush to get the vessel ready to dive,...

Final Text From Doomed Titan: 'All Good Here'

Coast Guard opens 2-week hearing on causes of submersible's implosion

(Newser) - The final message from OceanGate's doomed Titan submersible was fleetingly correct as the crew descended to the wreck of the Titanic: "All good here," read the text to the Polar Prince support ship at the surface above. That response came after a query about whether the Titan...

Lawsuit: Crew of 'Doomed Submersible' Experienced 'Terror'

OceanGate accused of gross negligence in death of Paul-Henri Nargeolet

(Newser) - The family of a French explorer who died in last June's high-profile submersible implosion has filed a lawsuit seeking more than $50 million, saying the crew experienced "terror and mental anguish" before the disaster and accusing the sub's operator of gross negligence. Paul-Henri Nargeolet was among five...

We May Soon Know More About the Titanic Sub Implosion

Hearing is scheduled for September

(Newser) - The Coast Guard will hold a long-awaited public hearing in September about the deadly Titanic submersible disaster as it continues its investigation into the implosion of the vessel. The experimental Titan submersible imploded en route to the Titanic , killing all five people on board, in June 2023. The US Coast...

Billionaire Plans to Prove It's Still Safe to Visit Titanic

Triton Submarines says OceanGate's imploded sub was the exception, not the rule

(Newser) - Nearly a year after the implosion of an OceanGate submersible en route to the Titanic's final resting place, a tragedy that killed all five people on board, a billionaire is planning another trip to the wreck. Larry Connor, whom the BBC refers to as an Ohio luxury real estate...

Submersible Debris, Human Remains Recovered

Salvage mission was follow-up to June effort that recovered wreckage of the Titan

(Newser) - The Coast Guard says it has recovered the remaining debris of the Titan submersible from the Atlantic Ocean floor, along with presumed human remains. All five people on board the submersible, including OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, were killed when it imploded during a dive to the wreckage of the Titanic...

OceanGate Suspends Operations After Tragedy

Company says all submersible trips are off, at least for the near term

(Newser) - Has OceanGate sent its last submersible to the deep? The company behind last month's tragic Titanic excursion has suspended operations, reports NBC News . Details of exactly what that means were not immediately clear: The entirety of the company's announcement on its website reads, "OceanGate has suspended all...

Titan Debris Is Brought Back to Land
Coast Guard Believes
It's Found Human Remains
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Jun 28, 2023 7:15 PM CDT

Coast Guard Believes It's Found Human Remains

Wreckage from submersible Titan was found on seabed

(Newser) - This file has been updated with the Coast Guard's latest announcement. Wreckage from the Titan submersible was pulled from the depths of the North Atlantic on Wednesday, and the Coast Guard later said the recovered parts apparently contained human remains. The Titan was carrying five people when it imploded...

James Cameron on Sub: 'I Wish I'd Spoken Up'

Director details flaws he saw in Titan's construction, slams OceanGate's lack of third-party certification

(Newser) - James Cameron says he knew "in my bones" that the Titan submersible was gone as soon as he heard it was missing. Now, the Titanic director and deep-sea explorer is expressing regret at not speaking up more on his concerns about the OceanGate vessel, which he says "shouldn'...

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