The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) recently concluded its investigation into OceanGate Titan Submersible disaster. According to Summary report Released on October 15, the already weak hull caused the cruise ship to collapse in the deep sea while it was on its way to visit the wreck of the RMS Titanic In June 2023, killing all five passengers on board.
But according to Their findingsInvestigators indicated that the submarine was not damaged shortly before its final voyage. Instead, fractures of primary layers known as laminations had formed in the carbon fiber composite exterior eight times earlier during a flight in July 2022.
“We found that Titan The pressure vessel was likely damaged after surfacing at the end of dive 80 in the form of one or more laminations, which weakened the pressure vessel. The investigation’s authors wrote in their reportAdding that additional damage of “unknown source” weakened the submarine after its eighty-second dive.
“Existing cracks and additional damage that degraded the pressure vessel between Dive 82 and the affected dive (Dive 88) led to a local buckling failure that led to the vessel imploding. Titan“, reads the summary.
NTSB description as well TitanIt described Infiniti’s engineering process as “inadequate,” resulting in the vessel containing “numerous anomalies” that did not meet the strength and durability required to repeatedly reach depths of more than 10,700 feet.
“In addition, OceanGate’s analysis of Titan “Real-time monitoring data for the pressure vessels was faulty, so the company was not aware that the Titan had been damaged and should be immediately removed from service after the 80th dive,” NTSB officials wrote.
On June 18, 2023, the crew of the OceanGate surface vessel lost contact with the submarine about 105 minutes into its approximately 2.5-mile journey to Titanic…The international search effort that followed eventually included more than 10,000 square miles of the Atlantic Ocean. Four days later, diving teams found the first section of the wreck, confirming the deaths of all five passengers, including Stockton Rush, CEO of OceanGate.
In September 2024, the US Coast Guard released a detailed map TitanThe 322,917-square-foot debris field is located approximately 1,600 feet from TitanicSagittarius. At its last known depth of 11,033 feet, the ocean exerts a force of 5,500 pounds per square inch (psi) on the object. It would have caused tremendous pressure Titan To explode in less than 20 milliseconds, faster than the human mind can comprehend.