Federal investigators have concluded that faulty engineering and undetected damage doomed the experimental submersible Titan, which imploded during a 2023 dive to the wreckage of the Titanic, killing all five people aboard.

In its final report, released Wednesday, the National Transportation Safety Board found the carbon-fiber hull was compromised by design flaws and damage from earlier dives that OceanGate, the company that owns and operates the vessel, failed to investigate. The submersible, the board said, “failed to meet necessary strength and durability requirements.”

The 87-page report painted a picture of an ambitious project pursued without adequate safeguards. Investigators said OceanGate skipped critical safety testing and misunderstood the limits of the carbon-fiber material t

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