The long US Coast Guard Service on Tuesday identified obvious problems with Titan Posgable and its company, just over two years after five people were killed when the deep -sea craft broke into the Titanic debris.
From technical issues to the culture of the company, more than 300 pages have been described in the document in detail the many steps that lead to an epic but “avoidance” disaster and have identified valuable lessons that can prevent future disasters.
2023 All five people on board, including Stockton Rush, founder and CEO of Titan, Titan, were killed by the underwater underwater underwater impulses at the bottom of the ocean floor, and activated the days of international search efforts.
Although the report was shocked by his open mistakes, the industry leader William Kohnen said it was “officially” related to long -term worries.
Kohnen, President of Hyrdospace Group Inc, and CEO and witness at Titan Posgable last year’s meetings, CNN told CNN Tuesday that the problems raised in the report are part of a regular interview in the industry that existed before the event, but now the front and center.
In the run -up to the US Coast Guard Service, Kohnen, who was in 2018. He has come up with a concern for safety, reflecting other growing industry actions that satisfy both research and particularly rich tourism.
Better rules are needed
The recommendations made by Tuesday’s report made it necessary to understand that better submersible industry regulations were required.
“A two-year study found many contributing factors that led to this tragedy, giving valuable lessons learned to prevent the future,” Jason Neubauer, chairwoman of the US Coast Sea Marine Research Council, said in a statement.
MBI, the level of the highest level of the US Coast Guard, urged the agency to implement a new regulation that requires all underwater submarots to be built and maintained in the US according to the same standards.
The report quotes that “there are no comprehensive and effective rules for the maintenance and operation of US” underwater items designed or operated in the US.
In the case of Titan, the MBI found that “the main factors” contributed to the impulses were “Oceangate” “the process of design, certification, maintenance and inspection,” the Coastal Service said in a statement.
Kohnen stated that the need for comprehensive regulation is what the industry “proclaimed in the desert for 20 years”.
As the underwater industry continues to grow, he said the rules, the same, were adopted on highways, he said.
“When you have hundreds of cars, someone came up with a very simple idea to draw a line in the middle of the road and say, ‘Look, everyone will agree that you are driving on both sides of the line,” Kohnen said. “We really have to do it here.”
“We do not invent the wheel. We need to exfoliate it, make it better, and then get involved in other maritime authorities,” he added.
Kohnen also advocated a third -party certification system for the safety of underwater objects and their teams, saying it will help maintain high standards through the walls.
Future -paid submarine passengers will not understand the risk they assume if the industry continues without installing third -party certification or other rules, Kohnen said.
“The refusal does not work if the signing person cannot give the informed consent,” he said, adding: ‘Informated consent will be more complicated for the next two generations, because there are as much technology as you make sure the citizen understands the risk they assume? “
Ethics leadership standards
Another obvious problem in the US Coast Guard Service was a “toxic workplace culture” Oceangate created by Rush and its management style.
Rush had a lot of decision -making power when he filled several roles in the company, centralizing his power and avoiding checks and balances from the board of the company.
“In general, MBI believes that Mr Rush deliberately replaced the Oceangate Board and did not ask for his collective experience so that he could not mark his vision for” titanic expeditions, “regardless of any increasing security issues,” the report said.
Asked whether cultural issues were separated by the oceangate or whether the industry was reflected in the industry, Kohnen said he considered the situation “civic duty”.
“We teach our younger ones to become leaders and push and believe in what they are doing, but when you are in a high-level leadership position, you have a great responsibility not to create chaos,” he said. “It’s really hard. And I think the oceangate, under the leadership of Stockton (Rush) – was a problem and we told him.”
William Kohnen of Hydrospace Group Inc. testify to the meeting of the US Coast Guard Maritime Research Council around 2023. June Loss of Titan underwater 2024 September 25th – Kate Killoy/Ap
Five years prior to impulsion, Kohnen, a former chairman of the Maritime Technology Society – a group of leading ocean engineers, scientists, politicians and educators – wrote a letter to Rush about 40 other industry leaders, expressing concern for Titan immersion security. Rush and Kohnen discussed some of the key concerns of the letter about the call.
Finally, Kohnen convinced the Oceangate CEO to change some of their website languages to reflect its experimental state, but felt that the public would still not understand that underwater security had not been checked.
“Nobody restricted them in innovation and came up with new technologies,” Kohnen said, stating that Oceangate had the right to immerse themselves in underwater without passengers. But he risks to others who did not understand the situation, is where they crossed the line, he said.
Establishing a relationship in the industry
Since the underwater invasion of two years ago, the industry has spent time reflecting on how important it is to glue the standard worldwide, Kohnen said.
“People pay attention,” he said.
He believes that another important step is to make sure that the different aspects of the industry and the marine authorities are related to each other and establish relationships with each other. He said the opportunity to call a colleague and get his opinion about the situation could save lives.
“This five -minute conversation can go a long way to avoid some major problems,” Kohnen said. “So when we think it seems too stupid to be a real problem, you will find out, no, it is a real problem and it is not as easy to find out as it looks.
Kohnen said the annual industrial conference would be held in the first international place in its history, hoping to visit more from the world and promote international cooperation regulations.
“It made it a bit more difficult because these vehicles travel through international boundaries,” he said. “So it is not enough to have only a local or national decision. It really needs everyone who holds here, and saying, ‘Look, we agree that we look at these things in the same way.”
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