While carbon fiber has long been used within the aerospace industry, Kemper said it had not been proven to repeatedly withstand such deep-sea pressures. The wreckage of the Titanic lies at a depth ...

While myriad issues likely contributed to the vessel’s demise, Titan ’s carbon fiber hull has drawn particularly scrutiny, especially because it was one of the first submersibles to use such a ...

The Titan's experimental design included a carbon-fiber hull. According to a 2017 report, the initial hull design was turned around in just six weeks. OceanGate's CEO Stockton Rush said he had ...