Well, it's now been TWO years....

[rwsmith]

On June 18th, 2023 the Titan submersible imploded and still there is no final report from the Coast Guard . Excuses include firing of the Coast Guard commandant, complexity of the case and the need to interview people. At this point I believe that it is a supreme example of not doing your job and beating around the bush.

 

[SMSgt]

It imploded and sank. That's the final report.

 

[ladder13]

Time flies.

 

[glenncal1]

Watch the Netflix documentary about it. Give you a pretty good idea about the why it happened.

 

[S&W Fan]

Watch the Netflix documentary about it. Give you a pretty good idea about the why it happened.

This +1. I stumbled across it on Discovery before Netflix got it.

 

[LVSteve]

Nope. When it becomes clear in the course of an inquiry such as this that it is likely to assign blame, every detail has to be bang on to so that insurers and lawyers have no avenue to challenge the final report. Oh, they will try, but that is just to delay payout.

 

[Muss Muggins]

Watch the Netflix documentary about it. Give you a pretty good idea about the why it happened.

Agreed. Very interesting watch . . .

Edit: I believe the Titan Mission won the 2023 Darwin Award for Best Group Effort . . .

 

[GaryS]

Other than the few people who are involved in the various lawsuits, most people really don't care.
It was a poorly designed and incompetently built novelty vessel.

The Disney "Finding Nemo" Submarine was better built.

 

[Rudi]

Time does fly. Seems to me that it was an amateur built sub in a very bad critical situation. It was doomed from the start.

 

[quikdraw67]

Death by ego.

 

[rwsmith]

Well, I'm interested. I've always been a student of engineering failures. I've been over about everything that is out there for public consumption and h ave a feeling it's going to be boring because for the most part, they were incommunicado. And I want to hear it officially stated that the cause was all in the lap of the man, supposedly an engineer, that wanted to do dangerous missions while acting like an imbecile. I think he was trying to be the Elon Musk of inner space. Anybody remember the short lived series starring Andy Griffith called 'Salvage One' where they built using old car parts to go to the moon to bring back valuable stuff that the Apollo astronauts left up there?

 

[Glenn R. McMannly]

All those millions/billions of dollars won’t buy back all the lost years.

 

[rwsmith]

Oh, I should add that speculation doesn't cut it. I saw vid about the sinking of the EV Derbyshire in a typhoon. The people who suffered losses were going with the assumption that it was structural inadequacy because of problems its sister ships had. The victims familiies paid for a seach and it was found quickly. After some years this prompted a thorough investigation and Robert Ballard went down to examine the wreck. No sign of structural failure, but what they did find was that the weather covers on the air ducts in the bow section were pounded until they failed, which allow a little water to enter. But TWO DAYS of pounding let in enough water and the bow road lower until enough water got to make it sink. BTW, the captain had received bad info on the location of the storm and tried to skirt it but ran right into it.