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Coast Guard Releases New Shocking Findings
About Titan's ‘Implosion’ Tragedy

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Posted By: Dreadnought, 8/6/2025 1:22:57 AM

The Coast Guard has released the findings in its investigation into the tragic Titan "implosion" and found that it was wholly preventable, and the CEO of the private company that operated it, OceanGate, was negligent. In a Report of Investigation (ROI) out Tuesday, it was revealed that the investigation found that the CEO of OceanGate, Stockton Rush, could have faced criminal charges had he lived in the submersible disaster following its deep-sea dive in the North Atlantic Ocean to the Titanic in June of 2023 that killed all five of its passengers.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: JimBob 8/6/2025 2:37:20 AM (No. 1987047)
Yap, Yap, Yap. Yap, Yap, Yap. Needs More Regulation and "Oversight". Yap. Yap, Yap. This article is all about the regulation, or lack of regulation, If you're looking for technical information as to why the sub failed, you will not find it here.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: Strike3 8/6/2025 8:16:31 AM (No. 1987155)
Obvious from the beginning. Rush was a loose cannon and ignored the need for thorough testing. Darwin's Law overrode the Laws of Physics.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: kdog 8/6/2025 8:40:00 AM (No. 1987169)
Why was it necessary to add "toxic workplace" as part of the cause? What does that even mean, SPECIFICALLY?? Sounds like woke code to me...
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Reply 4 - Posted by: preciosodrogas 8/6/2025 9:03:57 AM (No. 1987187)
Two year study, and how many $ millions, and it says nothing more than what was said within two weeks after the accident. He's dead, Jim. Two years? I guess it will be useful in any lawsuits.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: MickTurn 8/6/2025 11:10:39 AM (No. 1987276)
Sounds like they all died in a re-purposed 55 Gallon Barrel!
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Reply 6 - Posted by: DVC 8/6/2025 11:27:30 AM (No. 1987284)
There are two ways to make carbon fiber composite structures. One is the 'wet layup' technique where mixed epoxy is added to the carbon fiber cloth as it is wrapped or laid into the assembly mold. This method is not used for the most advanced composites. The other is called pre-impregnated carbon cloth generally called "prepreg carbon" or just "prepreg" in the industry. This is made in a factory where a partially catalyzed epoxy resin is applied to the carbon cloth and then the excess is rolled out between rollers. The catalyst used for the prepreg is a very, very slow curing material at room temperatures. Pre-preg is stored in refrigerators to further slow the cure and extend the shelf life. Prepreg is cut and layered together a bit like tacky fruit leather to get the number of layers required and then the assembly, usually in a mold, and forced into place under pressure, is placed into a high temperature oven (autoclave) to raise the epoxy up to temperature to flow the epoxy, finish the cure and join all the material into one bonded assembly. Pre-preg has a 'shelf life' and after months in refrigerated storage, the ultra slow cure has gone too far to fully trust the reflow and bond process in the oven, so the prepreg is trashed. Prepreg carbon fiber is extremely expensive. Bur over aged prepreg is only useful for making non-critical things like molds and supports for molds, not primary structures like wings or sub hulls. The guy making this submersible got a "great deal" on some past shelf life carbon prepreg cloth and used that to make the sub. This is suicidal, since there is a very high probability that the carbon fibers will not be properly bonded because the epoxy is too far towards final cure when they "bond" it under high temps. Stupid, stupid, stupid.....but he got a "great deal" on the junk prepreg - which, predictably and predicted, killed him and others. And the hull had been 'snapping and crackling' at depth previously, clear signs of debonding inside the composite structure. Those micro-debonds eventually add up to a total structural failure. In case you wonder, I built an all composite aircraft and have flown it over 1,000 hours. I learned much about composite construction during that process, and since.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: JackBurton 8/6/2025 7:05:13 PM (No. 1987452)
As one famous person remarked... "At this point, what difference does it make?"
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