The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released its final report on the hull failure and implosion of OceanGate’s Titan submersible.
“We determined that the probable cause of the hull failure and implosion of the submersible Titan was OceanGate’s inadequate engineering process,” NTSB said.
The Titan had been chronicling the Titanic’s decay and the underwater ecosystem around the sunken ocean liner in yearly voyages since 2021.
The craft made its last dive on June 18, 2023, a Sunday morning, and lost contact with its support vessel about two hours later. When it was reported overdue that afternoon, rescuers rushed ships, planes and other equipment to the area, about 435 miles south of St. John’s, Newfoundland.
The implosion killed the submersible’s operator, Stockton Rush, and four others. Rush also co-founded OceanGate, the company that owned the submersible.
In addition to Rush, the implosion killed two members of a prominent Pakistani family, Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman Dawood; British adventurer Hamish Harding; and Titanic expert Paul-Henri Nargeolet.
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