OceanGate, Inc.

The Titan implosion was not an accountability test because its pressure hull was unconventional. It became one because OceanGate carried people to extreme depth without establishing the as-built hull's strength, durability and safe service life; treated monitoring as a substitute for evidence it had not produced; kept decisive review and dive authority inside a concentrated command structure; and operated beyond independent technical and regulatory controls that could have challenged those choices before the casualty.