Titan Submersible Implosion Examined in Trailer for Netflix Doc ‘The OceanGate Disaster'
The Titan submersible's doomed voyage is the focus of the trailer for the Netflix documentary Titan: The OceanGate Disaster.
Director Mark Monroe's feature is set to premiere at the Tribeca Festival on June 6 before it begins streaming June 11. The film hails from the Story Syndicate team that is also behind such previous projects as Take Care of Maya, Gone Girls and Britney v Spears.
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Titan: The OceanGate Disaster examines the mindset of OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush and his determination to become a leader in oceanic exploration. Through whistleblower testimony, audio recordings and footage from the company's beginnings, the film offers fresh perspective on the implosion of the Titan submersible that commanded the world's attention in June 2023. Rush was among the five people who died aboard the vessel while it was off the coast of Canada during a voyage to the Titanic wreckage.
'There was no way of knowing when Titan was going to fail,' one individual says in the trailer. 'But it was a mathematical certainty that it would fail.'
Another participant in the project says in the footage, 'I thought Stockton was a borderline psychopath. How do you manage a person like that who owns the company?'
Producers for Titan: The OceanGate Disaster include Monroe, Lily Garrison and Jon Bardin. Liz Garbus, Dan Cogan, Kate Barry, Mala Chapple, Tommy Coriale, Jude Gerard Prest, Hannah Olson and Amy Herdy serve as executive producers.
Monroe is a filmmaker who won a WGA Award for his writing work on the Ron Howard-directed documentary feature Jim Henson: Idea Man.
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