Oceangate, the owner of Titan Submersible Oceangate uses “intimidation tactics” to avoid scrutiny before separation, says the American Coast Guard.

The United States exploration company has used the “intimidation tactics” to “evade organizational scrutiny” in the years before June 2023 Titan tragedy submersibleAccording to the results issued by the US Coast Guard on Tuesday.

These conclusions are part of a report of more than 300 pages issued by officials in the accident, killing five people on board when they exploded under the water during an expedition to see the Titanic wreck.

“It was possible to prevent these maritime losses and lose five life,” Jason New Pepore, who led the Coast Guard in the accident, said in a statement on Tuesday.

“For several years, which preceded the accident, it benefited from the tactics of intimidation in Oshngit, allowances for scientific operations, and the reputation of the favorable company to evade the organizational audit,” said the Coast Guard report. “By creating and exploiting the organizational challenges of confusion and oversight, Oceangate was ultimately able to completely run Titan outside the depths of the inserted seas.”

The report defines several major reasons behind the Titan Submersible demise. The report said that this included the fact that “TITAN’s design and testing did not address many basic engineering principles that guarantee safety and reliability in such a dangerous environment in nature.”

The report is also a mistake Oceangate For its continued use of Titan Sub, although the ship had previously been damaged in “a series of incidents that are likely to display the structure of the temple and other important components of the address.”

On the day of the tragedy, the SUB body witnessed “an important event that weakens the structural integrity of the pressure vessels, which led to an immediate and disastrous collapse,” according to the Coast Guard.

The Coast Guard report also found that Oshngit had a “toxic” safety culture and corporate structure, and that its operational practices were “very flawed”.

This included an environment at the workplace, “I used the shooting of senior employees and the threat that waving the horizon to shoot employees and contractors from expressing safety concerns.”

In February 2018, the former director of marine operations at Oceangate submitted a complaint of those whose violations with the Occupational Safety and Health Department claimed that he was rejected because he expressed safety concerns about the first “Titan Hull development and testing plans”.

In response to the complaint, Oceangate filed a lawsuit against the former employee, accusing him of violating a secret agreement signed with the company.

The complaints of those reported in time were not treated by the relevant US federal agencies, according to the Coast Guard report, and the former employee withdrawn the complaint, pointing to “the emotional losses of the legal battle that followed.”

“The two -year investigation has identified multiple contributing factors that led to this tragedy, which provides valuable lessons to prevent the occurrence of the future.”

Among those who were killed on board Governed He was Stockon RushThe co -founder of Oceangate, Washington State Company, which owns Titan. The veteran explosive explosion also killed Titanic Paul-Heenri Nargeoft; Two prominent Pakistani family members, Shahzada David and his 19 -year -old son Suleiman Dawood; And the British adventurer Hamish Harding.

The results of the Coast Guard are largely blamed in Rush, which investigators said warnings about the damage to the body was identified during a previous exploration in 2022.

“Excessive confidence in Mr. Rush has affected Oshngit employees, contractors, and mission specialists, and created an environment in which safety concerns were ignored or not emphasized in favor of operational continuity,” he found the Coast Guard analysis.

If Rush survived the tragedy, the Coast Guard said it would advise the US Department of Justice to think about following up on the criminal investigation into his actions, which the report said, “He showed neglect that contributed to the death of four individuals.”