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 remaining 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 specialists 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 soak up it.

“They wanted extra publicity, that is why we got here alongside. The sub they have been making was very fundamental, so the thought was — ‘Make us movies so we will be a magnet for folks,'” Assi recalled.

“They’d wild concepts, like they wish to take Pearl Jam within the submarine, or he talked about some floating metropolis that would additionally submerge.”

There is no proof on-line that Rush was a fan of Pearl Jam or that anybody from OceanGate had ever approached the band with the thought.

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 have been constructed with titanium alloy, and the hull was manufactured 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 numerous different passengers from inside the vessel, in addition to the precise shipwreck.

Nonetheless, numerous 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 without end.