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a day ago
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- Yahoo
This Wild True Crime Documentary Is Top 10 on Netflix (And You'll be in Disbelief the Entire Time)
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CNET
25-06-2025
- Entertainment
- CNET
The New OceanGate Doc Hit Netflix's Top 10, but There's Another Titanic Doc You Should See
Every week, Netflix unveils its Top 10 lists for the week before, ranking TV shows and movies by viewership. Netflix's Titan: The OceanGate Submersible Disaster was the No. 2 film on Netflix's Top 10 the week of June 9, but the documentary about the deadly 2023 Titan submersible implosion isn't the only film about the catastrophic undersea tragedy. Another, Max's Implosion: The Titanic Sub Disaster, started streaming in May. Both reveal the lengths that explorer and OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush went to in order to send his innovative but flawed submersible to the depths of the Titanic, but is one of these films better or more informative than the other? Both films are compelling, and each one features key witnesses with firsthand knowledge and experience aboard the sub who offer unique perspectives, all of them claiming that the sub's implosion was inevitable. The same points are made in both docs, but the information doesn't feel overly repetitive. Because of that, they complement each other and offer a clearer picture of what happened when taken together. I hate to say it (for time's sake), but if you're invested in the topic, it's absolutely worth watching both. But if you had to pick just one, I do have a recommendation. Both of these Titan documentaries arrived on streaming around the second anniversary of Titan's final, fatal dive, June 18, 2023. Both of them ultimately point to Rush being aware of the flaws and safety concerns regarding Titan, and despite the many whistleblowers around him, he chose to dismiss their concerns. (Titan had several issues, but the two biggest were its cylindrical shape, which didn't distribute pressure evenly, and the fact that it was constructed with an experimental carbon fiber hull, a material that had not been sufficiently tested to withstand deep-sea pressure at the depths of the Titanic.) The Netflix doc, for the most part, features interviews with former OceanGate employees and points to a flawed company culture that required unwavering loyalty to Rush. As the film shows, anyone who dared to raise concerns over faulty science was eventually forced out. One employee in particular, David Lochridge, a submersible pilot and OceanGate's former director of marine operations, is depicted as the primary whistleblower at OceanGate. Lochridge was a high-level employee at the company who would eventually be fired for voicing his concerns about Titan's design and was later threatened with a lawsuit by OceanGate when he tried to make his safety claims public. The documentary includes audio and video recordings of heated conversations between Lochridge and Rush, and footage of a dive to see the shipwreck the Andrea Doria, which required Lochridge to pilot the sub out of harm's way after Rush ensnared their vessel under the shipwreck's hull. Lochridge is just one of several former OceanGate employees on record in the film who left the company because they refused to be complicit in a potential situation that might place unsuspecting participants in harm's way. But Lochridge's anger at Rush -- and at the Titan's outcome -- is evident. "He wanted fame," Lochridge says of Rush at the end of the Netflix documentary. "First and foremost. To fuel his ego. Fame. That was what he wanted, and he's got it." The Discovery documentary, Implosion: The Titanic Sub Disaster, which is available on Max, features interviews with some of the same players as the Netflix doc but focuses on the US Coast Guard's investigation into the sub's implosion, and interviews with Josh Gates, host of Discovery's Expedition Unknown. Gates himself has been aboard the Titan and had planned to feature the submersible in an episode of his show, but grew so concerned after the "cascade of problems" the sub experienced on his trip that he refused to air the footage he planned to produce. "It wasn't just a red flag for me," Gates said of Rush's attitude toward the safety measures on board Titan, "It was like a flare had gone up." The film also features footage not included in Netflix's documentary of the moment that the topside ship lost communication with Titan, a haunting scene that shows Rush's wife, Wendy, the communications director on board, asking, "What was that bang?" after losing contact with the sub. I followed the story of Titan casually when the sub went missing in June 2023. Essentially, I believed it was all a terrible, tragic accident. But after watching both of these documentaries, it seems like the Titan's implosion could have been prevented. The submersible was missing for four days, and in that time, the world at large held out some hope that it was simply missing, and that those on the dive would be found safe somewhere in the North Atlantic. But both films make it abundantly clear that anyone familiar with Titan knew immediately when they heard the sub was missing that it suffered the same fate as the Titanic itself. Lochridge's accounts of his time at OceanGate in the Netflix doc help paint Stockton Rush as a boss reluctant to admit his company's shortcomings, and his testimony alone is stunning to see. But if I had to suggest just one of these films to watch, Max's version, which features testimony from the Coast Guard's inquiry, an interview with Christine Dawood, the wife and mother of two of the victims on board, and Josh Gates' footage from his own trip on Titan, simply answers more questions about how this disaster happened and the impact it left behind. But chances are, if you watch one of them, you'll get hooked and watch both anyway, like I did.


Daily Mirror
25-06-2025
- General
- Daily Mirror
New theory explores how one simple part may have doomed Titan submarine
Experts have revealed why using the wrong substance to help create the submarine could have contributed to the implosion of the Titanic Oceangate vessel last year A new theory exploring why the Titan submarine imploded during a deep sea tour has emerged and it could all be down to the glue used to stick the parts together, it has been revealed. British explorer Hamish Harding and father and son Shahzada and Suleman Dawood were killed on board the Oceangate vessel in June last year, alongside French national Paul-Henri Nargeolet. Stockton Rush, who was the chief executive of OceanGate Expeditions – which ran the expedition, was also killed. The vessel was heading to see the Titanic wreckage around 435 miles south of St John's, Newfoundland, when it lost contact with the tour operator an hour and 45 minutes into the two-hour trip. Days later, wreckage was uncovered from the ocean floor close to the Titanic. Now, it has been revealed that the glue used to piece the disastrous vessel together was like "peanut butter" and wasn't certified to work in deep sea water. Henkel, the German adhesive and sealant company which manufactured the glue, said it had only ever advertised its goods to the aerospace sector. The company said that although glue can be used correctly "in other applications", it was "not specified for usage under water". A spokesperson said: "It is the end user's responsibility to test their design to ensure proper performance." It has been reported that the company were unaware that their glue was used on the deadly submarine. Now questions have formed on whether the choice of adhesive was part of the reason the vessel exploded on June 18, 2023. On June 17, the maintenance log for the vessel stated that there was an issue with "unsightly" sealant connecting the titanium to the carbon fibre. Expert Dr Christian Stone, who specialises in corrosion, said the glue would have transformed the submarine into a huge battery. He said he wouldn't have advised OceanGate to use the glue. The specialist, who is based at Loughborough University, told MailOnline: "If you put two metals together and they're connected electrically to a media which conducts electricity like seawater you make a battery. "One side of that battery will corrode and give up ions. The other side will actually be protected. At the corroding side, we call this the anode and that makes acid. The other side is the cathode in which case in our case that will be carbon fibre or titanium and that will make alkaline." He added: "I would have advised them to use a filler material that was inert and does not conduct electricity." The National Transportation Safety Board previously took a look at the wreckage which was recovered from the disaster. They found that: "Most of the adhesive originally used to bond the hull to the titanium segment had disbonded from the machined end of the hull piece, but there was an approximately 3.5-inch-long patch where some adhesive bits were still attached." Despite the glue failing to strongly hold the vessel together, investigators believe it is not the cause behind the tragedy. They suspect that the submarine had failed at the front.


Daily Mail
25-06-2025
- General
- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE Was THIS the fatal flaw that doomed Titan? How 'peanut butter' glue used to join 22ft sub together was never certified to work in deep seawater
Glue used to hold the doomed Titan submersible together was never certified to work in deep seawater, it can be revealed today. Henkel, the German adhesive giant which manufactured the resin in question, said it was only ever marketed for the aerospace sector. Although it admits the glue can safely be used 'in other applications', Henkel 'does not certify its products for various uses'. A spokesperson said: 'It is the end user's responsibility to test their design to ensure proper performance.' Sources from inside Henkel had no idea their glue was even used on Titan until MailOnline told them, and confirmed it was 'not specified for usage under water'. Questions are now being asked as to whether the choice of glue was partly to blame for the 22ft sub's catastrophic implosion on June 18, 2023. All five passengers onboard were killed near instantaneously when the vessel caved in on itself. Cruising 12,500ft beneath the Atlantic Ocean, they were just minutes away from getting a glimpse of the Titanic's wreck. One world leading expert said he would never have advised OceanGate, the firm which operated Titan, used the Loctite EA 9394 Aero resin to bond the carbon fibre hull and titanium sections of the submersible together. Loughborough University's Dr Christian Stone, who specialises in corrosion, said it effectively turned the sub into a giant battery. The paste, listed online as possessing 'excellent strength' and having 'improved wet properties', contains between 30 and 40 per cent powdered aluminium. By using the metallic-based glue, OceanGate's CEO Stockton Rush, who died in the implosion, may have introduced a fatal flaw into his 'experimental' submersible. Titan's maintenance log noted on June 17 a problem with 'unsightly' sealant joining the titanium to the carbon fibre. The crew 'ground off bumps' to make a 'smooth surface'. Dr Stone, whose expertise is in galvanic corrosion – an electrochemical process where one metal will, when placed in certain environments such as seawater, sacrifice itself on behalf of another, said this should have been seen as a major red flag. He told MailOnline: 'If you put two metals together and they're connected electrically to a media which conducts electricity like seawater you make a battery. 'One side of that battery will corrode and give up ions. The other side will actually be protected. 'At the corroding side, we call this the anode and that makes acid. The other side is the cathode in which case in our case that will be carbon fibre or titanium and that will make alkaline. 'How quickly that anode side, the corroding side, corrodes depends in part on how conductive the environment is.' The wreckage of Titan showed that much of the five-inch thick carbon fibre hull delaminated and pulled apart into different layers as well as losing its bonding to the crucial titanium ceal Dr Stone said the 'unsightly' area on the joint could have been evidence of aluminium oxide – the result of the corrosion. Without testing, he cautioned it is difficult to determine how big an effect this would have had on the Titan's structure. Dr Stone warned that 'in the most extreme circumstances', this might have potentially triggered a 'very small amount of honeycombing'. Any gaps would have weakened the hull's structure and left it vulnerable to the extraordinary force exerted by the ocean. He said this reaction would begin once Titan was exposed to any salty air but would 'accelerate once they are within the water'. Dr Stone added: 'This will be especially potent when they are going in and out of the water many times because then it will also get exposed to oxygen as well as water, which is good for corrosion.' Dealing with the unsightly sealant by grinding it off was also unwise. He said: 'If they were repeatedly cleaning that kind of sealant, they may have actually done more damage cleaning it than would have occurred due to the corrosion. 'The use of vibrating tools on brittle materials such as epoxy (resin) can have a damaging effect on the stress cycle of these things. It all depends on what the engineering margins are in these extreme environments.' Lower safety margins would result in a greater danger of failure. Ultimately, Dr Stone told MailOnline that the product they used was designed for high altitudes and not the deep sea. He said: 'I would have advised them to use a filler material that was inert and does not conduct electricity.' Dr Stone said OceanGate should have spent more time testing, including the use of accelerated corrosion and stress testing. He added: 'I would also recommend preventive measures such as anodizing the titanium, coating the carbon fibre, and coating the sealant as well just to remove any chance of any of them interacting to make a cell and a battery.' When building his submersible, Rush appeared in a promotional video showing his team applying the glue to craft using large plastic spatulas. He said the product was 'like peanut butter' and thicker than Elmer's glue. Showing absolute confidence in his problem-solving skills and ability to think independently, Rush told the camera that attaching carbon fibre to titanium 'is pretty simple, but if we mess it up, there's not a lot of room for recovery'. A US Coast Guard investigation into the June 2023 tragedy is expected to publish a report into the disaster before the end of the year. As part of the investigation, experts at the National Transportation Safety Board examined the wreckage which was recovered from the scene. Examining the crucial joint, the NTSB found: 'Most of the adhesive originally used to bond the hull to the titanium segment had disbonded from the machined end of the hull piece, but there was an approximately 3.5-inch-long patch where some adhesive bits were still attached.' The glue had failed to hold the sub together, although it is not thought to be the underlying factor behind the implosion. Donald Kramer, senior materials engineer of the NTSB, wrote: 'The aft dome, aft segment, aft portions of the hull, and rails were located together in a comingled mass. The forward dome was located by itself.' The sub had failed at the front, investigators believe. Much of the imploding sub behind the very front was sent hurtling towards the rear dome, hitting it with such force it twisted the titanium ring which was glued to the hull, and ripped out several of the heavy duty bolts screwing the two parts together. OceanGate has suspended all exploration and commercial operations following the disaster.


CNET
23-06-2025
- Entertainment
- CNET
The New OceanGate Doc Hit Netflix's Top 10, but There's Another Titan Doc You Should See
Every week, Netflix unveils its Top 10 lists for the week before, ranking TV shows and movies by viewership. Netflix's Titan: The OceanGate Submersible Disaster was the no. 2 film on Netflix's Top 10 the week of June 9, but the documentary about the deadly 2023 Titan submersible implosion isn't the only film about the catastrophic undersea tragedy. Another, Max's Implosion: The Titanic Sub Disaster, started streaming in May. Both reveal the lengths that explorer and OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush went to in order to send his innovative but flawed submersible to the depths of the Titanic, but is one of these films better or more informative than the other? Both films are compelling, and each one features key witnesses with firsthand knowledge and experience aboard the sub who offer unique perspectives, all of them claiming that the sub's implosion was inevitable. The same points are made in both docs, but the information doesn't feel overly repetitive. Because of that, they complement each other and offer a clearer picture of what happened when taken together. I hate to say it (for time's sake), but if you're invested in the topic, it's absolutely worth watching both. But if you had to pick just one, I do have a recommendation. Both of these Titan documentaries arrived on streaming around the second anniversary of Titan's final, fatal dive, June 18, 2023. Both of them ultimately point to Rush being aware of the flaws and safety concerns regarding Titan, and despite the many whistleblowers around him, he chose to dismiss their concerns. (Titan had several issues, but the two biggest were its cylindrical shape, which didn't distribute pressure evenly, and the fact that it was constructed with an experimental carbon fiber hull, a material that had not been sufficiently tested to withstand deep-sea pressure at the depths of the Titanic.) The Netflix doc, for the most part, features interviews with former OceanGate employees and points to a flawed company culture that required unwavering loyalty to Rush. As the film shows, anyone who dared to raise concerns over faulty science was eventually forced out. One employee in particular, David Lochridge, a submersible pilot and OceanGate's former director of marine operations, is depicted as the primary whistleblower at OceanGate. Lochridge was a high-level employee at the company who would eventually be fired for voicing his concerns about Titan's design and was later threatened with a lawsuit by OceanGate when he tried to make his safety claims public. The documentary includes audio and video recordings of heated conversations between Lochridge and Rush, and footage of a dive to see the shipwreck the Andrea Doria, which required Lochridge to pilot the sub out of harm's way after Rush ensnared their vessel under the shipwreck's hull. Lochridge is just one of several former OceanGate employees on record in the film who left the company because they refused to be complicit in a potential situation that might place unsuspecting participants in harm's way. But Lochridge's anger at Rush -- and at the Titan's outcome -- is evident. "He wanted fame," Lochridge says of Rush at the end of the Netflix documentary. "First and foremost. To fuel his ego. Fame. That was what he wanted, and he's got it." The Discovery documentary, Implosion: The Titanic Sub Disaster, which is available on Max, features interviews with some of the same players as the Netflix doc but focuses on the US Coast Guard's investigation into the sub's implosion, and interviews with Josh Gates, host of Discovery's Expedition Unknown. Gates himself has been aboard the Titan and had planned to feature the submersible in an episode of his show, but grew so concerned after the "cascade of problems" the sub experienced on his trip that he refused to air the footage he planned to produce. "It wasn't just a red flag for me," Gates said of Rush's attitude toward the safety measures on board Titan, "It was like a flare had gone up." The film also features footage not included in Netflix's documentary of the moment that the topside ship lost communication with Titan, a haunting scene that shows Rush's wife, Wendy, the communications director on board, asking, "What was that bang?" after losing contact with the sub. I followed the story of Titan casually when the sub went missing in June 2023. Essentially, I believed it was all a terrible, tragic accident. But after watching both of these documentaries, it seems like the Titan's implosion could have been prevented. The submersible was missing for four days, and in that time, the world at large held out some hope that it was simply missing, and that those on the dive would be found safe somewhere in the North Atlantic. But both films make it abundantly clear that anyone familiar with Titan knew immediately when they heard the sub was missing that it suffered the same fate as the Titanic itself. Lochridge's accounts of his time at OceanGate in the Netflix doc help paint Stockton Rush as a boss reluctant to admit his company's shortcomings, and his testimony alone is stunning to see. But if I had to suggest just one of these films to watch, Max's version, which features testimony from the Coast Guard's inquiry, an interview with Christine Dawood, the wife and mother of two of the victims on board, and Josh Gates' footage from his own trip on Titan, simply answers more questions about how this disaster happened and the impact it left behind. But chances are, if you watch one of them, you'll get hooked and watch both anyway, like I did.