Cele|bitchy | Coast Guard investigation finds Titan submersible implosion ‘preventable’

This past June marked a grim anniversary: two years since the tragic implosion of the Titan submersible with five men aboard (well, one was a teenager). The vessel was on its way to the remains of the Titanic on the Atlantic Ocean floor, as part of a somewhat macabre millionaire’s tourist excursion helmed by Stockton Rush. A billionaire himself, Rush founded his company OceanGate in 2009 to make deep sea exploration available to the masses… for the exclusive price of $250,000 a ticket. When Titan first went missing on June 18, 2023, we knew something had gone terribly wrong. Days later when it was confirmed the vessel had imploded, people with expert knowledge of ocean exploration were conveying that OceanGate’s Titan was doomed from the start. And now it’s official: the US Coast Guard h