Titan submersible 'malfunctioned days before fatal dive', science director says

The Titan submersible that imploded on its way to the wreck of the Titanic, killing all five people on board, had malfunctioned just days before last year's fatal dive, the company's scientific ... Read More

Titan submersible's scientific director says the sub malfunctioned just prior to the Titanic dive

The scientific director for the company that owned the Titan submersible that imploded last year while on its way to the Titanic wreckage testified Thursday that the sub had malfunctioned just prior ... Read More

Loss of ‘five lives was preventable,' according to report on Titan submersible

Multiple contributing factors — including OceanGate’s toxic workplace environment and profit-over-safety ethos — led to the entirely "preventable" implosion of a submersible that cost five lives off ... Read More

Titan sub investigators blame OceanGate for safety lapses and say fatal disaster was ‘preventable’

In a report issued today, the U.S. Coast Guard panel investigating the loss of OceanGate’s Titan submersible and its occupants in 2023 blamed the disaster on a series of safety lapses — and issued ... Read More

Coast Guard says Titan submersible deaths were preventable and faults company's CEO

CHARLESTON, S.C. — Two years after passengers hoping for a glimpse of the Titanic wreckage lost their lives in the Titan submersible implosion off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada, the U.S. Coast ... Read More

The Coast Guard says the Titan submersible disaster was ‘preventable.’ Now the deep-sea industry is looking to the future

A lengthy report released by the US Coast Guard Tuesday identified glaring issues with the Titan submersible and the company that ran it, a little more than two years after five people were killed ... Read More

Titan Submersible Deaths Were Preventable: Coast Guard Investigation Reveals Fatal Oversights

The catastrophic implosion of OceanGate’s Titan submersible that claimed five lives in June 2023 was entirely preventable, according to a damning report released by the US Coast Guard Marine Board of ... Read More

Explosive new report blames OceanGate and its CEO for 'preventable' Titan sub disaster

A damning new report on the Titan submersible disaster that killed five people has revealed that the tragedy was preventable, and the result of a flawed experimental design and ignored safety warnings ... Read More

Titan sub investigators blame OceanGate for safety lapses and say fatal disaster was ‘preventable’

In a 2017 image, OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush is framed by the carbon-composite cylinder that became the hull of the ill-fated Titan submersible. (GeekWire Photo / Alan Boyle) In a report issued today, ... Read More