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The writing is on the wall in first trailer for Netflix’s new OceanGate documentary

2025-05-22T10:55:01-04:00

It was hard to believe how ill-conceived and poorly managed OceanGate Expeditions' plan to send its people down to the Titanic wreckage was, as reports first broke of the company's Titan submersible suffering a catastrophic implosion. But the entire situation and driving force behind it seem so much worse in the new trailer for Netflix's Titan: The OceanGate Disaster documentary.

Produced by Story Syndicate (Britney v Spears) and directed by Mark Monroe (Jim Henson: Idea Man), Titan: The OceanGate Disaster is a both a look back at everything that went wrong with the Titan project and a deep dive into the mind of OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, …

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OceanGate’s ill-fated Titan sub relied on a hand-typed Excel spreadsheet

2024-09-20T18:20:09-04:00

A former OceanGate contractor, Antonella Wilby, testified before a US Coast Guard panel on Friday that the company's Titan submarine, which imploded last year during a dive to the Titanic's wreckage, relied on an incredibly convoluted navigation system.

As Wilby described it during the US Coast Guard Marine Board of Investigation hearing, the Titan's GPS-like ultra-short baseline (USBL) acoustic positioning system generated data on a sub's velocity, depth, and position using sound pings.

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That information is typically automatically loaded into mapping software to keep track of a sub's position. But Wilby said that for the Titan, the coordin …

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New image of Titan submersible wreck released by US Coast Guard

2024-09-17T11:29:56-04:00

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An eerie image of the sunken Titan submersible was made public this week by the US Coast Guard, which opened an investigation into the vessel's demise.

The submersible was attempting to ferry tourists to the wreckage of the Titanic when it vanished

The submersible was attempting to ferry tourists to the wreckage of the Titanic when it vanished on June 18th of last year. After days of scouring the Atlantic, the Coast Guard determined that the Titan had suffered a "catastrophic implosion."

A remotely operated vehicle (ROV) discovered debris from the Titan on June 22nd, 2023, about 500 meters (1,640 feet) from the bow of the Titanic. The Co …

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A movie about the failed Titan submersible is already in the works

2023-09-29T13:07:11-04:00

It's only been months since the implosion of OceanGate's Titan tourist submersible, but Hollywood producers are already working on a film based on the incident. MindRiot Entertainment will make the film, with E. Brian Dobbins (The Blackening, Black-ish) serving as co-producer, according to a report from Deadline.

The movie will follow the events that took place before, during, and after the Titan's implosion, Deadline reports. In June, the Titan submersible set off on a journey to tour the wreckage of the Titanic at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. After losing contact with the surface, the US Coast Guard found that the Titan experienced a …

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Titan submersible suffered ‘catastrophic implosion’

2023-06-22T16:06:26-04:00

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The Titan submersible, which disappeared after setting off to tour the wreckage of the Titanic on Sunday, experienced a "catastrophic implosion," US Coast Guard Rear Admiral John Mauger announced during a press conference on Thursday afternoon.

"This morning, an ROV, or remote-operated vehicle from the vessel Horizon Arctic discovered the tail cone of the Titan submersible approximately 1,600 feet from the bow of the Titanic on the seafloor," Mauger stated. "The ROV subsequently found additional debris. In consultation with experts from within the unified command, the debris is consistent with the catastrophic loss of the pressure chamber."

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The missing Titanic tour sub is steered with a simple Logitech gamepad

2023-06-20T12:21:08-04:00

On Sunday morning, an OceanGate submarine vessel with five people aboard went missing in the Atlantic about an hour and forty-five minutes into a planned trip to explore the wreckage of the RMS Titanic. Made of carbon fiber and titanium, the vessel has enough air for 96 hours; however, as word of the emergency has spread, there's also shock at the wireless Logitech F710 gamepad used for steering.

The Titan advertises "state-of-the-art lighting and sonar navigation systems plus internally and externally mounted 4K video and photographic equipment," and this CBS News Sunday Morning segment from David Pogue, taken last summer, showed the repor …

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