CHATTER AWAY: Overnight Open Thread

Deadline reports:

Turns out James Cameron was right. The U.S. Coast Guard released the findings from its multi-year investigation into the implosion of OceanGate’s Titan submersible in 2023 and found that the disaster, which killed all five of the vehicle’s occupants, was a “preventable tragedy.”

The 335-page report from the Coast Guard’s Marine Board of Investigation found that “OceanGate’s failure to follow established engineering protocols for safety, testing, and maintenance of their submersible, was the primary causal factor.”

In terms of prevention going forward, the panel called for “improved regulatory oversight, in particular for novel vessel designs and operations.”

Read the full article.

Titan Sub’s Implosion Near Titanic Wreck Was Due To “Critically Flawed” Safety Processes & Hull https://t.co/dP7mzuP5gt

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