Overview

• Coast Guard’s final 335-page Marine Board report concludes Titan’s implosion was preventable due to flawed design, certification, maintenance and inspection processes.
• The board singles out CEO Stockton Rush for creating a false sense of safety and suppressing employee warnings through firings and intimidation.
• Investigators found the Titan’s experimental carbon fiber hull suffered catastrophic structural failure after OceanGate ignored known anomalies detected in earlier expeditions.
• The report issues 17 recommendations to strengthen oversight of private deep-sea submersibles, improve federal coordination and close international regulatory gaps.
• The report notes that criminal charges would have been requested against Stockton Rush if he had survived, prompting families to demand accountability and regulatory change.