“This marine casualty and the loss of five lives was preventable,” said Jason Neubauer, chairman of the U.S. Coast Guard Marine Board of Investigation charged with probing the Titan disaster.

The U.S. Coast Guard determined the implosion of the Titan submersible that killed five people while traveling to the wreckage of the Titanic was a preventable disaster caused by OceanGate Expeditions’s inability to meet safety and engineering standards.

The implosion of the OceanGate's submersible Titan in 2023 was "preventable," because of its inadequate design and "toxic" workplace culture, a report said.