The Coast Guard says that the submersible deaths Titan were capable and CEO

Two years after the passengers hope at a glimpse of Titanic wreckage They lost their lives In the collapse of Titan Gate off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada, the US Coast Guard issued a Scathing Report Tuesday, saying that the tragedy should never have occurred.

"These were maritime losses and the loss of five preventive life," Jasson Newpower, head of the Board of investigation at Titan Navy, said in a statement. "The two -year investigation has set multiple contributing factors that led to this tragedy."

Among those factors, a 300 pages report He finds that the man who was designed and experimented with Titan, CEO of Oshngit, Stockon Rush, ignored safety warnings, homogeneous regulations and showed neglect.

Investigators say that Rush was likely to face criminal charges if they survive. He and four passengers were killed in the explosion.

The Coast Guard report also cited insufficient insufficient design. For example, his body was made of carbon fiber cheaper instead of a more popular and stronger steel alloy.

Investigators also found a lack of certificates, maintenance and inspection on Titan, as well as a toxic culture culture. A spokeswoman for Oceangate, a company based in Washington, confirmed on Tuesday that she has been since then "Operation" He cooperated with the investigation.

The results of the Coast Guard reflect what the former Oceangate employees witnessed last summer during a A general hearing for two weeks In Charleston, they told the investigators that the company routinely set safety on safety and silence critics.

” Stockon warned a decade ago Titan was not safe. He witnessed it was "There was an inevitable thing that would happen, and it was just."

Lochridge also told the investigators that he was expelled after expressing his concerns to Stockon.

Another witness, the former scientific director of Wushit Stephen Ross, recalled a diving on Titan a few days before his final journey. He witnessed that there was a problem with its balance system and the permitted submersible passengers to the back of the ship while it appeared.

He said he "It ended up standing on the back barrier" While he left another passenger "Hang up upside down."

There was also a testimony from many witnesses "Voices of crackling" I heard inside the body of Titan during many diving. But the campaigns continued with some cost of $ 250,000 per person.

On June 18, 2023, Watch the world When the crew searched Titan after she lost her contact with her mother’s ship, hoping to find the survivors. Instead, rescuers discovered the wreckage, the Titan’s Tail, sitting in a straight position on the ocean floor, near Titanic. Human remains were later recovered.

The four passengers who were killed were the French explorer Paul Henry Nargolete, the British adventurer Hamish Harding and a member of a prominent Pakistani family, Shahzada Dawud and his son Suleiman Doud.

As part of its report, the Coast Guard submitted safety recommendations aimed at enhancing supervision of the submersible industry. Its results will be reviewed by the Coast Guard Commander, who then decides the procedures to follow up.

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