Titan Implosion

[Mike 1017]

The Titan Impolsion Documentary is on MAX. Accident or crime?

Mike

[Ace-Garageguy]

A crime of stupidity and cowboy "engineering".

[Spooker]

Also over confidence and ego.

[espo]

The Coast Guard should never have allowed this contraption to be operated in the first place. 

[johnyrotten]

I listened to many hours of the investigation while at work, and tons of interviews and people looking at the wreckage giving their ideas on the failure. Whole situation is/was crazy,and preventable. I'll have to check this out.

[slusher]

When you watch how it was made i can’t understand it lasting as long as it did..

[Mike 1017]

14 hours ago, espo said:

The Coast Guard should never have allowed this contraption to be operated in the first place. 

It was never register with the Coast Guard, so they didn't know that it even existed.

[webestang]

Crime of arrogance. 

[Fat Brian]

While I do enjoy the schadenfreude of the creator of this deathtrap getting to experience the results of his reckless disregard for basic safety and sound engineering I do hope the families of the passengers find a way to sue the company out of existence. Unfortunately, this probably falls into some legal loopholes where it will be difficult to make that happen. This is such and edge case the laws that would have prevented it haven't been written yet.

[johnyrotten]

14 hours ago, Fat Brian said:

While I do enjoy the schadenfreude of the creator of this deathtrap getting to experience the results of his reckless disregard for basic safety and sound engineering I do hope the families of the passengers find a way to sue the company out of existence. Unfortunately, this probably falls into some legal loopholes where it will be difficult to make that happen. This is such and edge case the laws that would have prevented it haven't been written yet.

The fact that any "passengers" were called crewmembers (specialists in this case if I'm remembering correctly) is/was how they circumvented some of those laws/regulations. Along with it being "experimental". I'm curious if any civil suits will be as publicize as the incident was, if they happen.

[slusher]

Has anyone went down too see any pieces of the titan sub?   Has there been  tv show about it?   I  watched a show about how it was made and concern when it was diving and later we kno what happened..

[Ace-Garageguy]

10 minutes ago, slusher said:

Has anyone went down too see any pieces of the titan sub?   Has there been  tv show about it?   I  watched a show about how it was made and concern when it was diving and later we kno what happened..

There are some videos available on YouTube of the remains on the bottom.

Analysis of the wreckage photos and videos played a large part in determining how the failure occurred.

[imarriedawitch]

Once heard someone say that the most dangerous thing you can do is fly in something you built yourself. This may top that.

[Tim W. SoCal]

9 hours ago, slusher said:

Has there been  tv show about it?  

"Implosion: The Titanic Sub Disaster" documentary began airing on May 28. You can catch it on The Discovery Channel, Max, Discovery+ or Amazon Prime Video. It is VERY interesting and informative.

[Tim W. SoCal]

On 6/2/2025 at 3:32 PM, slusher said:

When you watch how it was made i can’t understand it lasting as long as it did..

Plus is was stored outside on the eastern Canadian coast, IIRC, during frozen winters.

[slusher]

9 hours ago, Tim W. SoCal said:

Plus is was stored outside on the eastern Canadian coast, IIRC, during frozen winters.

I will check Discovery on demand and on line…

[PowerPlant]

There is now also a documentary on Netflix. 

[Ace-Garageguy]

Seeing screws driven into the carbon fiber pressure vessel to mount a monitor because Mr. Sub didn't want actual competent submariners or engineers around pretty much told me everything I needed to know quite soon after the...failure.

[PowerPlant]

The main problem seems to have been the ego and narcissist pettiness of one man, ceo of OceanGate, Stockton Rush, pilot on the ill fated dive (because no one else in their right mind would do it), who insisted carbon fiber is a revolution in deep sea submersible engineering, when everyone else, as well numerous hull failures during testing, were telling him otherwise. In truth, he was likely just a cheapskate, as appropriate deep sea submersible materials, such as titanium, are far more expensive. Basically, he sugarcoated his greed and illusions of grandeur as some kind of revolutionary, altruistic breakthrough that will enable your everyday Joe to plunge into the deep, believing in it against all common sense and basic science. Dozens of employees who saw red flags were either promptly fired or resigned due to safety concerns. Check out the Netflix doc, it’s interesting.