The US Coast Guard’s Marine Board of Investigation has issued a scathing report on the implosion of the Titan submersible in 2023, singling out OceanGate’s CEO and founder Stockton Rush for many of the company’s technical and managerial failings. It says that he made “sustained efforts to misrepresent the Titan as indestructible” and accuses the company of “glaring disparities between their written safety protocols and their actual practices.”
Jason Neubauer, who was the deputy chief of the Coast Guard’s Office of Investigations, chaired the investigation and tells WIRED: “All of the evidence pointed to a very singular leader in this operation. It all came