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PORTLAND, Maine \u2014 The 2023 Titan submersible disaster<\/a> could have been prevented, the U.S. Coast Guard said in a report Tuesday, but OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush ignored safety warnings, design flaws and crucial oversight that may have resulted in criminal charges had he survived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rush and four passengers were killed when Titan suffered a catastrophic implosion<\/a> as it descended to the wreck of the Titanic, sparking a dayslong search in the North Atlantic off Canada that grabbed international headlines. The Coast Guard convened its highest level of investigation in the aftermath, and the disaster has led to lawsuits and calls for tighter regulation of the developing private deep sea expedition industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Titan was owned by OceanGate, a private company based in Washington state. The Coast Guard report found the company\u2019s safety procedures were \u201ccritically flawed\u201d and cited \u201cglaring disparities\u201d between safety protocols and actual practices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Preventing the next Titan disaster<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Jason Neubauer, with the Marine Board of Investigation, said that the findings will help prevent future tragedies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere is a need for stronger oversight and clear options for operators who are exploring new concepts outside of the existing regulatory framework,\u201d he said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

OceanGate suspended operations in July 2023. A spokesperson for OceanGate, Christian Hammond, said the company has been wound down and was fully cooperating with the investigation, and offered condolences to the families of those who died and everyone affected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coast Guard report describes \u2018red flags\u2019 at OceanGate<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Investigators repeatedly point to OceanGate\u2019s culture of downplaying, ignoring and even falsifying key safety information to improve its reputation and evade scrutiny from regulators. OceanGate ignored \u201cred flags\u201d and had a \u201ctoxic workplace culture,\u201d while its mission was hindered by lack of domestic and international framework for submersible operations, the report says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Numerous OceanGate employees have come forward in the two years since the implosion to support those claims. The report says firings of senior staff members and the looming threat of being fired were used to dissuade employees and contractors from expressing safety concerns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBy strategically creating and exploiting regulatory confusion and oversight challenges, OceanGate was ultimately able to operate TITAN completely outside of the established deep-sea protocols,\u201d the report found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Debris from the Titan submersible is unloaded from the ship Horizon Arctic at the Canadian Coast Guard pier in St. John’s, Newfoundland, on June 28, 2023. (Paul Daly\/The Canadian Press via AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Marine Board concluded that Rush \u201cexhibited negligence\u201d which contributed to the deaths of four people. Had Rush not died in the implosion, the case would have been handed off to the U.S. Department of Justice and he may have been subject to criminal charges, the board said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The report also states that OceanGate reclassified its submersible passengers as \u201cmission specialists\u201d to bypass small passenger vessel regulations and allow submersibles to be designated as oceanic research vessels. Former mission specialists and OceanGate employees said their participation was \u201cpurely for a ride in the submersible, not for scientific research,\u201d the report states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Titan\u2019s inadequacies<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Investigators found the submersible\u2019s design, certification, maintenance and inspection process were all inadequate. Coast Guard officials noted at the start of last year\u2019s hearing that the submersible had not been independently reviewed, as is standard practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The vessel\u2019s carbon fiber hull design and construction introduced flaws that \u201cweakened the overall structural integrity\u201d of its hull, the report stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mounting financial pressures in 2023 led to a decision by OceanGate to store the Titan submersible outdoors over the Canadian winter, where its hull was exposed to temperature fluctuations that compromised the integrity of the vessel, the report said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The report also contends that Rush submitted a fraudulent sea service letter signed by OceanGate\u2019s chief operations officer to the Coast Guard\u2019s National Maritime Center to obtain his credentials. In the letter, Rush claimed past service as a crew member on Titan and misrepresented the size of the vessel, when in fact it had never been registered or admeasured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Marine Board said one challenge of the investigation was that \u201csignificant amounts\u201d of video footage evidence that had been captured by witnesses was not subject to its subpoena authority because the witnesses weren\u2019t U.S. citizens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The victims of the Titan disaster<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In addition to Rush, the implosion killed French explorer Paul-Henri Nargeolet, British adventurer Hamish Harding and two members of a prominent Pakistani family, Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman Dawood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The family of Nargeolet, a veteran French undersea explorer known as \u201cMr. Titanic,\u201d filed a more than $50 million lawsuit last year that said the crew experienced \u201cterror and mental anguish\u201d before the disaster. The lawsuit accused OceanGate of gross negligence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Titan\u2019s final dive<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Titan had been making voyages to the Titanic site since 2021. The Titan\u2019s final dive came on June 18, 2023, a Sunday morning when the submersible would lose contact with its support vessel about two hours later. The submersible was reported overdue that afternoon, and ships, planes and equipment were rushed to the scene about 435 miles south of St. John\u2019s, Newfoundland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wreckage of the Titan would subsequently be found on the ocean floor about 330 yards off the bow of the Titanic, Coast Guard officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Associated Press writers Kimberlee Kruesi in Providence, Rhode Island, and Leah Willingham in Boston contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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