OceanGate's doomed Titan submersible is the subject of Netflix's latest documentary - a story that, if you've been on the internet for the past few years, you'll already be familiar with.
Well, Titan: The OceanGate Submersible Disaster explores the incident in new depths, hearing from former company employees and the family of some of those who died when the sub imploded under extreme pressure in the Atlantic Ocean on June 18 2023.
Five people - including OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush - were heading 3,800 meters deep to catch a glimpse of the Titanic wreckage, which sunk some 113 years ago.
Employees had consistently flagged multiple safety concerns around the carbon-fiber pod, which was operated via a Logitech F710 video-game controller.
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Yet, as the Netflix documentary reveals, Rush chose legal action over dialogue, using lawsuits to silence genuine warnings.
Alongside Rush, four other passengers lost their life on the submersible. The youngest was 19-year-old Suleman Dawood, who was joined by his dad Shahzada, a 48-year-old British-Pakistani businessman.
British businessman Hamish Harding, aged 58, and 77-year-old former French navy diver Paul-Henri Nargeolet, also lost their lives in the tragedy.
Nargeolet's daughter, Sidonie, features in the 111-minute long programme - which has soared to the top of the platform's movie charts after releasing on Wednesday, June 11.
Viewers have since taken to X, formerly Twitter, to share their thoughts on the documentary.
And there was one particular aspect that they simply couldn't get over.
"Watching the OceanGate documentary on Netflix and this is wild," one social media user began. "Hearing the noises of the test dives and they still said nah, we got it, is frying me."
A second wrote: "Me every time this documentary plays the pops that submersible was making during testing," posting a GIF of Leonardo DiCaprio in The Wolf of Wall Street saying: "Absolutely f*****g not."
A third chipped in: "The Netflix documentary on OceanGate was insane. The popping noises the Submersible kept making was horrifying. Like [popcorn] hearing the Hull start to break."
A fourth agreed: "Watching the Titan submersible doc on Netflix rn and got traumatized when they played the constant pops the passengers heard whenever the carbon fibre snapped…"
The film also explores millionaire Rush's mission to create OceanGate. With an aerospace engineering from Princeton University and a dangerous amount of ambition and, let's be honest, delusion, it was clear he idolized the likes of SpaceX founder Elon Musk and Blue Origin boss Jeff Bezos.
"I'm still here gagged and gooped over that OceanGate documentary on Netflix," one person said. "That man really just fired anyone in the company who brought up safety concerns about the submersible& then sued them into silence because he wanted to be the Elon Musk of the sea?"
Titan: The OceanGate Submersible Disaster is streaming now on Netflix.
Topics: Titan submersible, Netflix, Streaming, Viral
Ellie Kemp