Overview
- Investigators said OceanGate’s process produced a carbon‑fiber pressure hull with anomalies that failed to meet required strength and durability.
- The report traced delamination after dive 80 and additional damage after dive 82, culminating in a local buckling failure and implosion on dive 88.
- OceanGate did not adequately test Titan and misinterpreted real‑time monitoring data, so the damaged vessel continued operating.
- The NTSB found OceanGate lacked proper emergency planning and notification, saying debris likely would have been located sooner though rescue was impossible.
- The board cited insufficient U.S. and international standards for pressure vessels for human occupancy and called for new Coast Guard regulations and wider industry guidance.