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‘Titan: The OceanGate Disaster’ Director on How OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush’s Ego-Driven Hubris Led To Tragedy
The director of 'Titan: The OceanGate Disaster' talks about how OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush's ego-driven hubris led to tragedy.
The vessel’s implosion, which occurred on the submersible’s sixth descent to the Titanic wreckage in the North Atlantic, killed five people, including billionaire and OceanGate’s co-founder and CEO Stockton Rush. Variety film critic Dennis Harvey compared “Titan: The OceanGate Disaster” to Werner Herzog’s “Grizzly Man” – “in that this is also a portrait of death by ego-driven hubris in which one victim shoulders all the posthumous blame.” Bardin: When we met David Lochridge (former OceanGate director of marine operations ) we understood that there was a story to tell because, as you see in the film, he was shouting from the rooftops internally and then externally that something was wrong.
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