Deadly Titan implosion en route to Titanic ‘preventable’: US Coast Guard

The United States Coast Guard says its investigation into the Titan submersible accident that killed five people in 2023 while it was on its way to the wreckage of the Titanic was a “preventable” implosion.

The guard’s Marine Board of Investigation concluded that the “inadequate design” of the Titan submersible was a primary contributing factor, its report issued on Tuesday said.

All five people on board the Titan died on a tourist expedition to the remains of the Titanic in the North Atlantic. The disappearance of the Titan, owned by the US-based company OceanGate, led to a search that grabbed worldwide attention.

The report found the company’s safety procedures were “critically flawed”, noting that the core of the failures came down to “glaring disparities” between the company’s saf