{"id":1226,"date":"2025-10-16T14:14:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T14:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/?p=1226"},"modified":"2025-10-20T08:53:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T08:53:38","slug":"oceangates-titan-sub-didnt-meet-safety-standards-ntsb-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/16\/oceangates-titan-sub-didnt-meet-safety-standards-ntsb-says\/","title":{"rendered":"OceanGate&#039;s Titan sub didn&#039;t meet safety standards, NTSB says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsnationnow.com\/travel\/missing-titanic-tourist-submarine\/oceangate-titan-ntsb-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NewsNation<\/a>) \u2013 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsnationnow.com\/world\/oceangate-titan-submersible-items\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Titan submersible<\/a> did not meet manufacturing safety standards, according to a Wednesday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ntsb.gov\/investigations\/Pages\/DCA23FM036.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">report<\/a> from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB).<\/p>\n<p>The report faulted OceanGate\u2019s \u201cinadequate engineering process,&#8221; which resulted in a disaster that killed five people during a voyage to view the wreckage of the Titanic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(OceanGate) failed to establish the actual strength and durability of the Titan pressure vessel and resulted in the company operating a carbon fiber composite vessel that sustained delamination damage that was subsequently exacerbated by additional damage of unknown origin, resulting in a damaged internal structure that subsequently led to a local buckling failure of the pressure vessel,\u201d the report said.<\/p>\n<p>The agency recommended enhanced regulations for small vessels such as the Titan submersible.<\/p>\n<p>The NTSB report echoes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsnationnow.com\/world\/titan-submersible-disaster-was-preventable-coast-guard-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">that of the Coast Guard<\/a>, which was released in August.<\/p>\n<div class=\"nlp-ignore-block article-content rich-text\">\n<aside class=\"promo-link\">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsnationnow.com\/world\/oceangate-titan-submersible-items\/\" class=\"promo-link__link\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n\t\tTitan submersible items that survived the implosion\t<\/a><br \/>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Coast Guard\u2019s Marine Board of Investigation report found OceanGate had safety procedures that were \u201ccritically flawed,\u201d noting that the core of the failures inside the company came down to \u201cglaring disparities\u201d between their safety protocols and actual practices.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/sub1-e1696969609629_9b0013_c22931.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-700065\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A submersible vessel named Titan was used to visit the wreckage site of the Titanic. (OceanGate Expeditions via AP)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The disappearance of the Titan off Canada on June 18, 2023, led to a search that garnered worldwide attention, and the Coast Guard deployed its highest level of investigation in the aftermath.<\/p>\n<p>The Titan lost contact with its support vessel 1 hour and 45 minutes into the dive, at approximately 12,000 feet below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean. Officials searched for the submersible for four days until evidence of an implosion was found on the ocean floor.<\/p>\n<div class=\"nlp-ignore-block article-content rich-text\">\n<aside class=\"promo-link\">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsnationnow.com\/world\/china\/us-blasts-chinas-expansion-of-rare-earth-export-controls\/\" class=\"promo-link__link\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n\t\tUS blasts China\u2019s expansion of rare earth export controls\t<\/a><br \/>\n<\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p>OceanGate co-founder Stockton Rush was among the five who died. Other victims included Paul-Henri Nargeolet, Hamish Harding, Shahzada Dawood and his son, Suleman Dawood.<\/p>\n<p>After the implosion, Washington state-based OceanGate suspended its operations.<\/p>\n<p><em>NewsNation&#8217;s Taylor Delandro contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(NewsNation) \u2013 The Titan submersible did not meet manufacturing safety standards, according to a Wednesday report from the ...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1226"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1230,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226\/revisions\/1230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltaalenthq.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}