Late OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush allegedly needed to ship an enormous rock band to the Titanic wreck in his ill-fated submersible.
A new documentary on the 2023 Titan tragedy, Titan: The OceanGate Submersible Catastrophe, was simply launched on Netflix this previous Wednesday (June 11). The movie covers the historical past main as much as the day the Titan made its closing dive and the invention of the dismantled submersible on the backside of the Atlantic Ocean.
The Titan doc options interviews with former OceanGate staff, deep-sea exploration consultants and extra. Joseph Assi, a videographer that Rush recruited to doc the expeditions, loosely touched on OceanGate and its CEO’s plans for the sub, together with a band they supposedly needed to absorb it.
“They wanted extra publicity, that is why we got here alongside. The sub they had been making was very fundamental, so the concept was — ‘Make us movies so we are able to be a magnet for folks,'” Assi recalled.
“That they had wild concepts, like they wish to take Pearl Jam within the submarine, or he talked about some floating metropolis that might additionally submerge.”
There isn’t any proof on-line that Rush was a fan of Pearl Jam or that anybody from OceanGate had ever approached the band with the concept.
What Was the 2023 Titan Submersible Tragedy?
On June 18, 2023, Rush and 4 passengers — French deep-sea explorer Paul-Henri Nargeolet, British billionaire Hamish Harding, Pakistani-British businessman Shahzada Dawood and his 19-year-old son Suleman — launched into a journey to see the Titanic wreck that sits over 12,500 toes deep within the northern Atlantic Ocean in OceanGate’s Titan submersible.
The domes on every finish of the Titan had been constructed with titanium alloy, and the hull was made from carbon fibre and strengthened plastic.
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Lower than two hours after their preliminary dive, the OceanGate crew misplaced contact with the vessel. After 4 days of looking, particles was discovered on the seafloor, and was confirmed to be from the Titan. The invention revealed that the sub had imploded, that means all 5 passengers died immediately.
The Titan Did Efficiently Make it to the Titanic Wreck
The Titan really made 13 profitable journeys to the Titanic wreck earlier than its implosion in June of 2023. The Netflix documentary exhibits footage of Rush and varied different passengers from throughout the vessel, in addition to the precise shipwreck.
Nonetheless, varied audio clips performed all through the doc of “banging noises” that the passengers heard throughout their expeditions, which indicated that the carbon fibre was really failing and the hull had weakened. Rush described them as warning indicators that indicated it was time to ascend to the floor.
One final sound was heard simply earlier than the OceanGate crew misplaced contact with the vessel ceaselessly.
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