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Yahoo
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
A Revealing Documentary About The OceanGate Disaster Is A Top Movie On Netflix Right Now
'Titan: The OceanGate Disaster' is one of the top movies on Netflix right now, according to the platform's public ranking system. The documentary revisits the events and decisions that culminated in the 2023 incident, in which the infamous Titan tourist submersible imploded during an ambitious expedition to the Titanic wreck. It premiered first during the 2025 Tribeca Film Festival before being released on Netflix on June 11. In addition to offering an unprecedented look at what led to the implosion via whistleblower testimony and pivotal audio recordings, 'Titan: The OceanGate Disaster' also examines OceanGate's charismatic CEO, Stockton Rush, one of the five who perished in the disaster, and how his ambitious goal to become the next billionaire innovator contributed to the underwater catastrophe. Read on for more trending movies of the moment across streaming services, including Max, Paramount+ and Apple TV+. And if you want to stay informed about all things streaming and entertainment, subscribe to the Culture Catchall newsletter. Another documentary currently trending among Netflix's top 10 movies is 'Trainwreck: The Astroworld Tragedy,' which recounts how the fatal crowd surge disaster at the 2021 Travis Scott-led music festival killed 10 people and injured thousands due to alleged organizational failures. The documentary features interviews with festival attendees, survivors and families of some of the victims. HuffPost spoke to one family who isn't featured, the parents of 23-year-old Madison Dubiski, one of the 10 victims who died. You can read their interview here. 'Cleaner,' the British action thriller that released in theaters on Feb. 21, is now trending on Max after making its way to the streamer. The Martin Campbell-directed film follows a former soldier-turned-window cleaner who comes to the rescue when a group of radical activists take over an energy company's annual gala. The movie's cast includes Daisy Ridley, Clive Owen, Taz Skylar, Ruth Gemmell, Ray Fearon, Howard Charles, Rufus Jones, Lee Boardman and Richard Hope. 'Echo Valley,' an Apple TV+ original starring Julianne Moore and Sydney Sweeney, is currently the No. 1 trending movie on the streamer. The chilling thriller follows a mother whose secluded life is interrupted by her troubled daughter showing up covered in someone else's blood. When dark secrets unravel, this mom finds out the lengths she'll go to protect her own. Some mixed reviews of the film praised Moore and Sweeney's acting, while one called 'Echo Valley' the 'trashiest A-list Lifetime movie.' Stream it now on Apple TV+. 'The Other Woman,' the 2009 drama starring Natalie Portman and Scott Cohen, is now available to stream on Paramount+. The film, an adaptation of acclaimed author Ayelet Waldman's novel 'Love and Other Impossible Pursuits,' follows two newlyweds whose relationship began as an affair, who are then tested by tragedy. If you're looking for other films to watch, check out our What We're Watching blog. A Love Triangle Isn't The Real Story In 'Materialists' 'Mountainhead' Tries To Skewer Billionaire Tech Bros — But Fails Miserably This 1 Moment Saves The New 'Mission: Impossible' From Being A Total Letdown
Daily Record
11-06-2025
- General
- Daily Record
Netflix documentary about Titan sub disaster reveals moment CEO fired pilot for raising security concerns
Titan: The OceanGate Disaster focuses heavily on what eventually led the Titan sub to implode, killing the five people inside. A new Netflix documentary about the Titan Sub disaster has uncovered a recording that reveals the moment late OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush fired a member of staff for raising security concerns. Titan: The OceanGate Disaster focuses heavily on what eventually led the Titan sub to implode, killing the five people inside. Stockton Rush was among the five to die in the sub that took paying passengers down to see the wreckage of the Titanic in June 2023. The Netflix documentary includes a recording of the moment that Rush fired his former Director of Marine Operations, David Lochridge. Lochridge, an experienced diver and submersible pilot, says Rush told him at the very last minute that he wanted to be the one to pilot the sub for the dive. When Lochridge pushed back he was overruled, but convinced the late CEO to allow him to join the expedition. Footage from inside the sub shows how Rush, a comparably inexperienced pilot, almost crashes the sub into a debris field, forcing Lochridge to have to step in. In the documentary, he claimed that he was then 'frozen out' of meetings and senior decisions by the CEO. Lochridge said: 'The passengers were hugging but with Stockton it was a complete turnaround for me. 'He never really spoke to me the rest of the trip, the dynamic changed. 'After I started getting cut out by senior management from the Titan project. I was dropped from all email communications, verbal communications. I was totally out of the loop.' He also described how the sub was made from carbon fibre, suggesting it was an unsuitable material to make a submersible from. Lochridge went on to claim he was the 'only person' to stand up to Rush over security and engineering The late CEO had decided he did not see the need to classify the Titan sub, and said he was happy for Lochridge to do an inspection of it. The former OceanGate Director of Marine Operations described how he sent an email with his inspection notes, including his concerns around the submersible. The next day Lochridge was brought into a meeting, the recording of which is shared for the first time in the Netflix doc. Rush seems noticeably agitated in the recording, suggesting that anyone who said carbon fibre couldn't work for a deep sea submersible was 'full of s**t'. He goes on to say: 'I don't want anyone in this company who is uncomfortable with what we're doing.' 'It was about the decision-making that led to their deaths,' director Mark Monroe says of Titan documentary, which traces the events and key decisions that culminated in the disaster. Official investigations into the Titan disaster began shortly after the incident, with inquiries launched by both the United States Coast Guard and the Transportation Safety Board of Canada as the vessel was operated by a US company and launched from a Canadian ship. The US Department of Justice is examining OceanGate's financial practices. But the Coast Guard's Marine Board of Investigation has yet to release its final report. But according to the director, the investigations are now in a "holding pattern". The Titan submersible imploded due to structural failure during its descent to the Titanic wreck. The documentary shows how the novel use of carbon fibre in the hull of the craft, coupled with other questionable engineering decisions, raised alarms for many OceanGate employees. In particular, the film highlights the inadequacies of OceanGate's acoustic monitoring system, designed to identify weak points in Titan's hull in real time. The documentary includes portions of Karl Stanley's September 2024 testimony before the US Coast Guard Marine Board of Investigation. In April 2019, Stanley, a deep-sea diving expert, went on one of OceanGate's first crewed dives of a prototype submersible in the Bahamas, and reported hearing cracking sounds in the hull. In the film, Keith Fawcett, a Coast Guard technical adviser, asks Stanley if he partook in 'any meeting where the results of the real-time monitoring acoustic sensors were examined by the group and tried to isolate where the sound occurred?' 'That information was not shared with me,' Stanley replies. Monroe believes the Coast Guard thinks OceanGate 'didn't even look at the data. OceanGate has this thing they're promoting as this state-of-the-art unparalleled safety mechanism.' Taking note of the acoustic monitoring system picking up additional fibres breaking across the dives leading up to Titan's 88th and final voyage, lead Coast Guard investigator Captain Jason Neubauer notes in the documentary, 'That should've been a warning. In the end [OceanGate] discounted the one system that was going to be vital to their operation. It is really in my mind like the smoking gun of what eventually caused this.' 16 minutes after communications from the Titan ceased, an unexpected sound reached an underwater recording device 900 miles from the Titanic wreck. 'Science tells us that when an implosion of that scale happens in the ocean, it makes a humongous noise,' Monroe says. 'The Navy has acoustic monitoring throughout the oceans. We know how sound travels in water, and we know that if a thing is 900 miles away, it's going to be about 16 minutes for that noise to reach the recording device. My belief was that's most likely the sound, and so to include it felt like resolution, definitive, some feeling of, 'that's what happened.' ' Titan: The OceanGate Disaster is available to watch on Netflix now. Join the Daily Record WhatsApp community!
Yahoo
11-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Here's the 1 Netflix Movie I Can't Wait to Watch in June 2025
Two years ago, the world was gripped by the story of the Titan submersible disaster, in which an unregulated undersea vessel was crushed during an attempt to visit the wreckage of the Titanic. Everyone on board the vessel was lost, including Shahzada Dawood and his son, Suleman Dawood, Hamish Harding, Titanic expert Paul-Henri Nargeolet and Stockton Rush, the pilot of the Titan and the CEO of its parent company, OceanGate. The story behind this tragic event is told in Titan: The OceanGate Disaster, a new documentary coming this month. It's also my pick for the one Netflix movie I can't wait to watch in June. These events played out in the public eye in June 2023, but the backstory of Rush and his apparent disregard for the dangers involved are part of the film's primary focus. Missing Titanic Submarine Pilot Is Married to Descendent of Shipwreck's Victims Director Mark Monroe spends a good deal of time unraveling Stockton Rush, a man whose dreams of fame were only truly achieved by his death and by the way it happened. The people who worked alongside — and for — Rush describe him as someone who wanted to be known as the next Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk. He was also, by his own words, less than concerned about the safety of his company's activities. The portrait of Rush that emerges in Titan: The OceanGate Disaster isn't very flattering, as he refused all warnings and silenced all whistleblowers who tried in vain to rein him in before it was too late. In the trailer above, one of the documentary participants says that Rush was "a borderline psychopath" who was impossible to manage as the boss of his own company. He paid the price for his hubris, but he wasn't the only one. This question is explored at length in the documentary itself, but the short answer is that Rush opted to have the Titan constructed with materials that weren't meant to be used for a deep-sea submersible vessel. There's a reason why there aren't many underwater excursions to the Titanic's wreck. It's nearly 3,800 meters beneath the surface of the ocean, and that's a depth that the Titan could only reach so many times before it imploded from the pressure. James Cameron Reacts to Titan Submersible Tragedy: 'I'm Struck by the Similarity of the Titanic Disaster Itself' There are several pictures and video clips of the Titan itself in this documentary, and you may be horrified to learn that Rush and his other pilots controlled the vessel's movements with an off-the-shelf video game controller. Rush catered the Titan to wealthy tourists, but some of them were understandably horrified by how unsafe the vessel appeared to be. That response may have saved their lives. No. For the most part, the film's focus is on Rush and the creation of the Titan and the origin of OceanGate. There's always room for more documentaries about the other victims in the future, but almost everything about this event centers on Rush himself. It seems inevitable that someone will make a scripted movie about Rush in the future. For now, Titan: The OceanGate Disaster may be the definitive word on what happened. Titan: The OceanGate Disaster will stream on Netflix on June 11.
Mint
02-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Mint
Netflix OTT releases this week: New movies to watch; One of Them Days, A Widow's Game, Titan & more
There's a lot happening in entertainment this week — from a lighthearted comedy movie, One of Them Days, to Titan, an investigative documentary which unveils the 2023 OceanGate Disaster. Here's a quick look at the top releases and updates to keep on your radar. Plot: The movie revolves around two best friends who are scrambling to repay their stolen rent money. They take part in a frantic race across LA to find enough cash to avoid eviction. Cast: Keke Palmer, SZA, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Lil Rel Howery, Katt Williams Plot: This documentary is based on CEO Stockton Rush's quest to become the next billionaire innovator and the doomed underwater endeavour that called into question the price of ambition in the depths of the ocean. The Titan submersible's ill-fated journey to the ruins of the Titanic dominated headlines in June 2023, Genre: Investigative documentary Plot: The movie revolves around two gifted physicists who travel to the future, and they must adapt to a new world — and a new relationship dynamic — to find their way back home. Cast: Lucero, Benny Ibarra, Renata Vaca Plot: The story for this psychological thriller revolves around a murder investigation that will shatter the facade of the victim's widow and expose her double life. It is based on real-life events. Cast: Ivana Baquero, Tristán USpanishlloa, and Carmen Machi Plot: The movie is based on a near-impossible love story between a woman from Mars and a man from Earth. Cast: Kim Tae-Ri, Hong Kyung Plot: A shallow man's life takes a profound turn after a heart transplant, after the donor's vibrant world pulls him in. Cast: Benjamín Vicuña, Julieta Díaz, Gloria Carrá, Yayo Guridi, Peto Menahem, Julia Calvo, Bicho Gómez
News.com.au
26-05-2025
- Entertainment
- News.com.au
New Netflix documentary on doomed Titan sub drops June 11
Netflix has just dropped the official trailer of Titan: The OceanGate Disaster, which will air in Australia on June 11. The new documentary will delve into the catastrophic implosion of the Titan submersible, examining the events that lead to the tragic 2023 incident. OceanGate's ill-fated tour to the Titanic wreck claimed five lives – the company's CEO Stockton Rush, British explorer Hamish Harding, British-Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman and French deep-sea explorer Paul-Henri Nargeolet. The trailer goes hard on testimony from those who knew the expedition company and its billionaire boss, Mr Rush, a US entertepenuer. They include ex-OceanGate staff members like Tony Nissen, a former engineering director at the firm, Bonnie Carl, a human resources and finance director, and David Lochridge, an operations director who previously said he was fired after raising safety concerns about the sub. Mr Lochridge says he thought Rush 'wanted fame' to 'fuel his ego', while Mr Nissen adds he thought the CEO was 'a borderline psychopath'. Also interviewed was Ms Carl, who recalls her reaction after she said Rush announced she would be the company's next sub pilot: 'Are you nuts? I'm an accountant.' Meanwhile, one individual says: 'There was no way of knowing when Titan was going to fail but it was a mathematical certainty that it would fail. 'Stockton saw an opportunity to restart tourist visits to Titanic, while another interviewee claimed Rush 'fully believed in what he was doing would work'. The tour took place on June 18, 2023 with the sub heading to view the wreck of the Titanic when it went vanished from sonar and failed to resurface from the 12,500ft (3810m) dive in the north Atlantic. The world became captivated in the search and rescue mission in what was thought to be a race against time to save the crew. But five days later a piece of debris was found on the ocean floor, confirming everyone's worst fear – the sub had imploded. Rob McCallum, who has led seven dives to the Titanic, told The Sun the tragedy was 'unavoidable' as OceanGate had been repeatedly warned their 22ft (6.7m) sub was not safe. Titan was never certified or classed, and Mr McCallum implored Rush to let an independent agency test his vessel. Mr McCallum said the businessman refused to listen, however, and simply brushed aside warnings. 'I run an expedition company that had delivered over 1500 expeditions – we are not cavalier, we manage risk as far as we can,' he told the publication last year. 'So when OceanGate say things like exploration involves risk, yes it does, but that doesn't give you carte blanche to ignore obvious danger.' Rush accused those trying to raise safety concerns of trying to stop innovation. The engineer, who co-founded OceanGate in 2009, created Titan with an experimental design made up of a carbon-fibre pod with titanium rings bolted on. Mr McCallum, who founded expedition company EYOS, said carbon fibre material is not fit for submerging so deep underwater. He warned Rush that the carbon fibre would not withstand such pressure, but Rush allegedly informed him he was 'going to carry on regardless'. During a two-week hearing over the doomed sub in September 2024, the US Coast Guard released footage showing part of the Titan on the ocean floor. It shows a close-up of wiring hanging out of the tail cone that formed part of the 6.7 metre vessel made from carbon fibre and titanium. OceanGate's then chief pilot Mr Lochridge, who was fired after his inspection report laid bare a series of safety risks, spoke about the 'appalling faults' with the original model of the doomed sub during the hearing. He said he was particularly concerned that the hull was made from carbon fibre and was only about five inches thick – and not usual metals like titanium. 'The whole idea of the company was to make money. There was very little in the way of science,' Mr Lochridge claimed. Mr Nissen also told the hearing he had refused to sign off on a 2019 dive to the wreckage of the Titanic also due to concerns over the Titan's hull. He was fired later that year. He said Rush had been unfazed after learning of a potential 2018 lightning strike on the submersible and possible hull problems. Refusing to believe news of the damage, Rush insisted 'it'll be OK', Mr Nissen said, according to testimony from the hearing published in The New York Times. During his testimony, Mr Lochridge walked the panel through photos of the Titan's hull that showed the layers of carbon fibre coming apart — and even one troubling photo that showed how a flashlight shine could be seen through the thin material. A cameraman who previously worked with Rush told the New York Post in 2023 that Rush 'didn't want anyone telling him what he couldn't do' — and this hubristic attitude ultimately drove OceanGate's fiascos, Mr Lochridge claimed. In the years after he was dismissed from OceanGate, Lochridge said he would see the company promote missions to the Titanic and wonder if they would end in catastrophe. 'It was inevitable something was going to happen. And it was just when.'
