Part 12/14:
Monitoring Systems Must Be Accurate: Real-time structural health monitoring should have provided early warning. The failure to interpret such data contributed to the ongoing operation despite deteriorating hull integrity.
Regulation and Certification Are Essential: The fact that OceanGate avoided standard certification processes, relying on less rigorous approvals, played a significant role in the disaster.
Data Recovery Is Difficult but Vital: The forensic investigation illustrates that even when hardware is heavily damaged, some data can be recovered, offering clues to the failure mechanisms. Future designs should incorporate survivable data storage solutions.