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‘Titan: The OceanGate Disaster’ Review: Netflix Doc Depicts High-End Deep Sea Exploration With a Lethal Price Tag
Mark Monroe directs an engrossing recap of the 2023 submersible accident, in which five people died in a vessel experts had already deemed unsafe.
Though confirming their fate took some time, an explanatory narrative quickly emerged: Seeking fame as a high-tech adventurer, Rush had heedlessly led his wealthy paying customers into a death trap, ignoring (or firing) everyone who told him the craft he’d built wasn’t safe. … He referred to those guys as big swinging dicks, and he loved that term.” The noblest figure on screen, company Director of Marine Operations turned would-be whistleblower David Lochridge, sighs toward the end that Rush “wanted fame — and he got it.” OceanGate personnel were an initially stellar lot who, as they sounded the alarm over unaddressed hazards, either resigned or got fired — getting replaced in some cases by inexperienced, fresh-out-of-college newbies.
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