Canada's Transportation Safety Board set to unveil Titan disaster findings
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OTTAWA — One day before the third anniversary of the disaster, Canada’s Transportation Safety Board (TSB) will release its report into the 2023 implosion of OceanGate’s Titan submersible.
The TSB announced Monday that its report into the disaster, which claimed the lives of OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush and four passengers on June 18, 2023, will be released Wednesday.
Canadian-flagged vessel served as Titan’s mothership
The TSB investigation, launched shortly after the submersible violently imploded while en route to the wreckage of the RMS Titanic, has largely focused on the Canadian-flagged vessels responsible for transporting the doomed submersible to and from Canadian ports.
“In 2021 and 2022, the Titan and its launch platform were transported to various dive sites on the deck of the Canadian-flagged vessel Horizon Arctic ,” a preliminary report issued by the TSB shortly after the implosion stated.
“In 2023, the Canadian-flagged vessel Polar Prince was used for transport and support, towing the Titan and its platform to dive sites.”
Between 2021 and 2023, the TSB said Titan conducted a total of seven dives within Canadian waters and three dives within Canada’s Exclusive Economic Zone — the area stretching 200 nautical miles (around 370 km) from a nation’s coastline.
During that same period, the TSB said Titan and its Canadian mothership conducted 19 dives outside Canadian waters, including dives to the Titanic .
“During these operations, the Titan and its launch platform were not registered or certified in Canada or any other country,” the TSB said at the time.
The Titanic struck an iceberg and sank in the early morning hours of April 15, 1912, in the North Atlantic, about 650 km from Cape Race, Nfld.
In September 2023, TSB investigators joined salvage operations led by the United States Coast Guard, helping facilitate the transport of wreckage to St. John’s, N.L.