Overview

• OceanGate’s design, certification, maintenance and inspection protocols proved inadequate, leading to the Titan’s catastrophic hull failure.
• Investigators pinpointed CEO Stockton Rush’s misrepresentation of safety margins and suppression of employee warnings as key contributors to a toxic workplace culture.
• OceanGate ignored hull anomaly data from a 2022 Titanic expedition and neglected real-time monitoring alerts that should have prompted maintenance.
• The report issues 17 recommendations to shore up oversight, improve federal coordination and close international policy loopholes in private submersible operations.
• Had Stockton Rush survived, the Coast Guard said it would have referred him to the Department of Justice for potential criminal charges over the preventable tragedy.