Netflix Has A Documentary Coming On The Oceangate Titan Submarine Implosion, That "Shines Light On It's "Borderline Psychopath" CEO Who Wanted Fame". Because Of Course They Do.
Entertainment Weekly - The shocking 2023 implosion of the OceanGate Titan submersible, which instantly killed all five passengers, is the subject of a damning new documentary from Netflix.
The first trailer for Titan: The OceanGate Disaster is heavy on testimony from those who knew the expedition company and its billionaire CEO, Stockton Rush. The American entrepreneur was one of the five passengers killed on June 18, 2023, while the compact submersible descended en route to the wreckage of the Titanic, and Rush is now in all the talking heads' crosshairs as the villain of this tragic story.
"There was no way of knowing when Titan would fail," notes one interviewee. "But it was a mathematical certainty that it would fail."
Stop me if you've heard this one before. Tragedy, spectacle, and Netflix trying to cash in on it all.
Shocker I know.
Netflix’s new documentary Titan: The OceanGate Disaster is set to hit our screens soon, and you know what that means. It’s time for us all to feel weirdly uncomfortable about watching five people’s final moments turned into a two-hour, true-crime fest.
Stockton Rush and the four other passengers were tragically killed when the Titan submersible went poof in the middle of the ocean. But Netflix turning this into a documentary that leans heavily into Rush being some sort of "borderline psychopath" feels like a step too far. We're all gonna tune in to watch a CEO who’s not around to defend himself be made the villain of a tragic accident?
Documentaries are great when they’re about things like- corruption, greed, or cultural phenomenons.
But this?
This feels like Netflix just saying, "Hey, what if we took an already tragic event and turned it into something that makes us money?"
It’s like they’re going for the low-hanging fruit. Can we not just leave some things alone? Not every awful moment in history needs to be transformed into Netflix content.
Imagine being Stockton Rush’s family, having to watch your loved one’s mistakes and shortcomings turned into Netflix's new ‘feel-good’ binge watch? I’m sure they’re just thrilled.
It's bad enough we got The BBC rounding up Rush's wife to hear the final moments of her husband's life, but with a camera in her face.
People - Newly-released footage is thought to have captured the moment the sound of the doomed OceanGate Titan submersible's implosion reached the surface of the ocean.
The U.S. Coast Guard released a clip on Thursday, May 22, showing OceanGate's CEO Stockton Rush's wife, Wendy Rush, monitoring data and text communications at a computer alongside Gary Foss, who was part of the communications and tracking team for the Titan submersible.
They were on board the support vessel, Polar Prince, near the Titanic wreckage site in the North Atlantic Ocean on June 18, 2023 when the incident occurred, the USCG stated in the clip's caption.
"A sound heard at the 24-second mark, later correlated with the loss of communications and tracking, is believed to be the sound of the Titan’s implosion reaching the surface of the ocean," the USCG wrote.
In the clip, Wendy asked, "What was that bang?"
There’s a whole world out there of corrupt politicians, billionaires swindling people out of their life savings, and companies poisoning the planet for profit. But this? This is what we need to investigate further? Let’s just let these people rest man.
If Netflix wants to put some effort into working on a doc, get your asses in gear and get to fucking work on that Covid 19: How Dumb Were We? documentary that we don't want. WE NEED.