Netflix has shared the trailer for their upcoming documentary investigating OceanGate’s doomed final deep-sea voyage to the Titanic, which resulted in the deaths of five people.
The upcoming documentary film Titan: The OceanGate Disaster is set to reveal a catalogue of safety concerns and mistakes by OceanGate boss Stockton Rush, who was among the five killed when the submersible imploded.
The company took thrill-seekers with deep pockets to the North Atlantic Ocean floor to look upon the world’s most fabled shipwreck, but the deep-sea exploration ended in catastrophe in June 2023.
The new Netflix documentary looks to answer the question of what went wrong in the years before the four-day search for the missing vessel and, if the trailer is anything to go by, apportions blame to co-founder Stockton.
The trailer features archival footage and talking head whistleblower interviews, the first of which tells viewers: ‘It was a mathematical certainty that it would fail.’ It goes on to touch on Stockton’s quest to make deep-sea exploration a viable form of luxury tourism.
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Director Mark Monroe told Netflix’s Tudum he was ‘horrified and mesmerised’ by the wall-to-wall news coverage and frenzied social media reaction when the submarine first went missing.
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He said: ‘There was no context for what could have happened to those onboard, and the only touchpoint was the Titanic, a story that’s now become a grim fairy tale.
‘The more I dug into this terrible tragedy, the more intrigued I became about how this could have ever happened in the first place, and who exactly was the man who built and then went down with this ship. We hope that this film can help provide answers to these very questions.
‘[Rush] felt the pressure of saying that he was going to do something, and as the years go on and the technology keeps returning these not great answers, that pressure begins to build.’
When did the Titan submarine implode and who was on board?
Titan imploded about 90 minutes into a descent to see the Titanic wreck in June 2023, killing all five people on board.
Following a four-day search that ended in the discovery of broken Titan parts, it was concluded that a ‘catastrophic loss of the pressure chamber’ destroyed the submersible.
Those on board were Paul-Henri Nargeolet, 77, Hamish Harding, 58, Shahzada Dawood, 48, Suleman Dawood, 19, and OceanGate’s co-founder, Stockton Rush, 61, who was piloting it.
He concluded: ‘The greatest tragedy, and what I hope audiences come to understand, is how this disaster was completely avoidable.’
The documentary includes footage and audio from the inside of the OceanGate operation to piece together the decisions and miscalculations that led to the disaster.
Netflix viewers were quick to respond to the trailer for the new documentary, with @plotsense_ai writing on X (formerly Twitter): ‘Chilling words and a haunting story!’
@abstractist99 added: ‘Sheesh, this is scary stuff!’ while @BKNYCJAILSTOOL posted: ‘This was an absolute disaster.’
Titan: The OceanGate Disaster streams on Netflix on June 11.
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