The submersible that implode in 2023 aimed to travel the remains of Titanic. The US Coast Guard shared the report in which he reveals the causes of a tragedy he assured, could be prevented.
After two years, the report on the causes of the implosion of the Titan tourist submarine that descended to the North Atlantic in 2023 to see the Titanic remains was known. In the document, the Marine Research Board (MBI in English), which belongs to the United States Coast Guard concluded that the death of Stockton Rush, Hamish Harding, Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman Dawood and Paul-Henri Nargeolet, the five people traveling in the submarine, could be prevented.
The submersible, which belonged to Oceangate, a company that founded Rush, lost contact with the surface to a little more than an hour of having started the immersion. According to research data, implosion was caused by a fault that generated water pressure at such a large depth, which quickly produced the death of the five passengers.
Lack of controls and possible criminal offense against Oceangate
The report that disseminated the United States Coast Guard It mainly attributes responsibility for the Oceangate company for the factors that caused the implosion that ended with the life of the five people. The researchers determined that the submarine had a design that It was not suitable for that immersionand that had problems in maintenance and inspections to the company.
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He President of the Coast GuardJason Neubauer, argued: “Two -year research has identified multiple factors that contributed to this tragedy, which has provided valuable lessons to prevent it from happening“, He added:” Strict supervision and clear options are needed for operators that explore new concepts outside the current regulatory framework. “
The US coastal guard also said that if Rush Stockton had survived the tragedy, the cause had passed to the Department of Justice to be investigated as a Possible Sailor Involuntary Homicidesince he was CEO of Oceangate and interim pilot of the Titan.
According to the data that the report throws, the implosion was given by a union that connected the carbon fiber helmet with two parts of the submarine.
The report also adds that Oceangate could make the expedition because Several protocols jumped that establish the rules to be able to navigate in such deep waters. Another of the grotesque mistakes made by the company was that the crew that was in charge of coordinating the operation took seven hours to inform about its disappearance.
Why the news of the disappearance of Titan hit
When the news of the disappearance of the Titan submarine was known, it caused great shock worldwide because it was learned that the crew were destined to the remains of the Titanic.
There were several days of extreme search led by authorities from the United States and Canada, among other agencies. In June 2023, the Coast Guard confirmed that they had managed to find the submarine remains very close to the Titanic bow. The submersible collapsed structurally and the five participants of the immersion lost their lives very fast.
After the tragic episode, a great debate about the regulation of tourist trips of this type and the security measures that many times companies such as Oceangate avoid.
According to the Coast Guard report, the Dawood – Father and Son – paid the Millionaire Sum of USD 250,000 one and USD 150,000 the other To carry out the expedition aboard the Titan. And two other “specialists” companions paid USD 25,000 to accompany the event, but were not participants in immersion. Worldwide there was great commotion for the fateful fact and the debate revolved around the amount they had paid for a tourist expedition like that.
Source: Ambito
