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Each week, Netflix unveils its 10 best lists for the previous week, the ranking Television And movies by the hearing. This week, Netflix’s Titan: The Oceangate Submersible Disaster was no. 2 film on the Top 10 of Netflix, but the documentary on the deadly submersible implosion of Titan 2023 is not the only film on the catastrophic underwater tragedy.
Another, Max’s implosion: The Titanic Subsaster, was released in May. The two reveal the lengths that explore it and the CEO of Oceangate Stockton Rush made in order to send his innovative but imperfect submersible to the depths of the Titanic, but is one of these better or more informative films than the other?
The two films are convincing, and everyone presents key witnesses with first-hand knowledge and the experience on board the submarine which offer unique prospects, all claiming that the implosion of the sub-Sous-Marin was inevitable. The same points are raised in the two documents, but the information does not feel too repetitive. For this reason, they complement each other and offer a clearer image of what happened when taken together. I hate saying it (for time), but if you are invested in the subject, it is really worth looking at both. But if you had to choose one, I have a recommendation.
These two Titan documentaries strengthened around the second anniversary of Titan’s final deadly diving on June 18, 2023. (Titan had several problems, but the two most important were its cylindrical form, which did not distribute the pressure evenly, and the fact that it was built with an experimental carbon fiber shell, a material that had not been sufficiently tested to withstand the deep pressure. the oceangate.) Rush. As the film shows, anyone who dared to raise concerns about defective science was finally forced to go out. A particular employee, David Lochridge, submersible pilot and former Oceangate Marine Operations Director, is represented as the main reproductor in Oceangate.
Lochridge was a high -level employee of the company who would ultimately be dismissed to express his concerns concerning the design of Titan and was then threatened with oceangate trials when he tried to make his allegations of security. The documentary includes audio and video recordings of animated conversations between Lochridge and Rush, and images of a dive to see the sinking of the Andrea Doria, which forced Lochridge to pilot the submarine after Rush took their ship under the shell of the ship. Lochridge is only one of the many former Oceangate employees ever recorded in the film that left the company because they refused to be an accomplice of a potential situation which could place the participants without distrust in the manner of Harm. But Lochridge’s anger in Rush – and the result of the Titan – is obvious. “He wanted glory,” said Lochridge about Rush at the end of the Netflix documentary. “First and foremost. To feed his ego. Fame. That’s what he wanted, and he has it.”
The discovery documentary, Implosion: the Titanic sub-hipWho is available on Max, has interviews with some of the same players as the Doc Netflix but focuses on the US Coast Guard survey on the implosion of the submarine, and interviews with Josh Gates, a multitude of unknown discovery expedition. Gates himself is on board the Titan and had planned to present the submersible in an episode of his program, but was so worried after the “cascade of problems” that the sub -ubit of his trip that he refused to broadcast the images he planned to produce. “It was not only a red flag for me,” Gates said about Rush’s attitude towards security measures aboard Titan, “it was as if a push had increased.” The film also presents images not included in Netflix’s documentary at the moment when the Topside ship lost communication with Titan, a haunting scene that shows Rush’s wife, Wendy, the director of communications on board, asking: “What was the time?” After losing contact with the money.
I followed the story of Titan with casualness when the submarine disappeared in June 2023. Essentially, I thought it was a terrible and tragic accident. But after looking at these two documentaries, it seems that the implosion of the Titan could have been prevented. The submersible was missing for four days, and at that time, the world as a whole held a little hope that it simply lacked and that those who complain would be safe somewhere in the North Atlantic. But the two films clearly indicate that anyone familiar with Titan immediately knew when they heard that the submarine lacked that he was suffering the same fate as the Titanic himself.
Lochridge’s accounts on his time in Oceangate in Doc Netflix help to paint Stockton Rush as a reluctant boss to admit the shortcomings of his business, and his testimony alone is magnificent to see. But if I had to suggest only one of these films to watch, the version of Max, which presents testimonies of the coastal guard investigation, an interview with Christine Dawood, the wife and the mother of two of the victims on board, and the images of Josh Gates of her own trip to Titan, simply answers more questions about the way this disaster has happened and the impact of Josh Gates. But there is a good chance that if you look at one of them, you will be addicted and look at both anyway, as I did.
