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wn.com - 16 hours ago

Faulty engineering led to implosion of Titan submersible headed to Titanic wreckage, NTSB finds

Portland: Faulty engineering led to the implosion of an experimental submersible that killed five people on the way to the wreck of the Titanic, the National Transportation Safety Board concluded in a report Wednesday. The NTSB made the statement in its final report on the hull failure and implosion of the Titan submersible in June 2023. Everyone on board the submersible died instantly in the North Atlantic when Titan suffered a catastrophic implosion as it descended to the wreck. The NTSB report states that the faulty engineering of the Titan “resulted in the construction of a carbon fibre composite pressure vessel that contained...


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