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A scathing new report into the Titan submersible disaster that killed five people has found the vessel was damaged during earlier dives and built through a flawed engineering process that failed to meet safety standards — conditions that ultimately led to its fatal implosion.

The report released by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) on Wednesday also found that OceanGate, the vessel's operator, did not adequately test Titan or know its actual strength and durability.

The doomed vessel imploded near the Titanic wreck in the North Atlantic Ocean in 2023, resulting in the instantaneous death of all five occupants.

Unlike earlier probes, the NTSB report focuses on how Titan's carbon-fiber hull physically failed a

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