US Coast Guard Report on Titan Submersible Implosion Singles Out OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush
1 min read
Summary
The US Coast Guard has issued a damning report into the collapse of the Titan, a submersible vessel that collapsed in June 2023, killing its entire five-man crew.
The report accuses OceanGate, the owner and operator of the Titan, along with its CEO Stockton Rush, of having made “sustained efforts to misrepresent the Titan as indestructible” and of there being “glaring disparities between their written safety protocols and their actual practices”.
The submersible was operated by OceanGate, with CEO Stockton Rush at the controls, when it mysteriously collapsed shortly after departure on a trip to the wreck of the Titanic on June 18, 2023.
The report also calls into question the safety procedures and culture within OceanGate.
The company has faced several lawsuits from the families of those onboard, as well as a criminal investigation by the Southern District of New York.
