The Dark Truth About OceanGate (Documentary)

This piece is an extraordinary documentary that takes you on a captivating voyage into the heart of deep-sea exploration.

00:00 - Start
01:03 - Stockton Rush
02:47 - Ocean Gate
06:12 - Outside The Box
12:20 - Titan Disappears
23:40 - Predatory Behavior

Delving into the fascinating world of OceanGate, this film offers an up-close and personal look at their groundbreaking missions and the profound discoveries that lie beneath the ocean's surface.

Join a team of fearless oceanographers, marine biologists, and explorers as they embark on epic undersea adventures, using cutting-edge submersibles to reach depths that were once thought unreachable. Witness the stunning biodiversity, mysterious shipwrecks, and awe-inspiring geological formations that they encounter on their journeys.

This documentary is a testament to human ingenuity and the insatiable curiosity that drives us to explore the unknown. It showcases the tireless dedication of OceanGate's team and their commitment to unraveling the secrets of the deep, shedding light on the beauty and fragility of our planet's last great frontier and shedding light on the controversial end to the company.

The Titan controversy and unbelievable malpractices by the company and even lies will all be uncovered in this video.

[johns]

He literally heard that there was a rule you don't use titanium and carbon fiber composite materials together especially for a pressure vessel and he took that as a challenge. That's like going "They told me not to drive south in the northbound freeway lane, so that's exactly what I did".

[rekunta]

_”You’re remembered by the rules you break.”_

Well, you’re not wrong on that one, Rush. You most certainly will be. Damn poetic.

[kairos-]

“Nobody’s ever used [carbon fiber] in this kind of vessel before” and he never bothered to figure out why nobody’s ever used it before

[lukasandisaaktime]

"The industry standard" is what keeps people alive, man.

[davidwhatever]

I was given a health and safety induction at university, the officer running the course started with the statement "Rules and regulations are written in the blood of those who went before you. you have to decide, do you want to add your own blood to what we already know?".
A statement that's kelp me safe, when tempted to ignore some of the more burdensome H&S practices

[bsings]

I understand putting yourself in a dangerous vessel because of a curiosity that’ll kill you otherwise, but it’s disgusting to put others in that situation and claim it’s safe

[shygur]

Hearing him talk reminds me of that guy who wanted to create “the largest water slide ever built” and it resulted in an incredibly dangerous ride that didn’t pass through testing and was opened anyway, unfortunately a minor was killed as a result of the negligence. Wild how people think they can be experts while ignoring actual experts

[michaelimbesi]

An issue that isn’t talked about is that even if NASA, Boeing, and APL had all been as involved in Titan as Rush said they were, none of those organizations are anywhere close to being qualified to design a submarine. They’re aerospace experts, and the challenges of designing a sub are different from and more difficult than those of designing an aircraft.

[Logjambam]

Its honestly reassuring how many rules have to be broken for a submersible to be dangerous

[alphaomega]

“When you're outside of the box, it's really hard to tell how far outside the box you are.” - So many people told Stockton Rush how far outside the box he was, and not in a good way. He thought he was so much smarter than the *entire* industry of experts. He wanted to be remembered as an innovator. He will be remembered, instead, as a man who innovated his way to a watery grave. And he took people with him. His hubris killed people. No one will be toasting a glass of champagne in his honor.

[Dajlec]

8:05 - that's where dr. Ian Malcolm comes and says: "Yeah, yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could that they didn't stop to think if they should."

[brianshorey]

Their deaths may have been painless, but the minutes leading up to it must have been terrifying.

[TheStickyDynamite]

If you fire someone that criticises the safety aspect of your work, you have no right, absolutely no right to call yourself an engineer.

[trishoconnor]

The more I hear about Rush's not just casualness but outright hostility toward safety, the less this sounds like an accident and more like a murder-suicide.

[kelly]

The thing about breaking rules is that you need to fully understand why the rules are there in the first place. If you're gonna break the rules for the exact reason that they were set in place, you will not be remembered as an innovator, but as an idiot who thought that they could outsmart physics.

[sammurphy]

James Cameron is really impressive with his knowledge. Not the average director.

[Rei-xqzm]

I cant express how ridiculous using carbon fibre is. Anyone who passed first year engineering would be able to tell you how horrible an idea that is. Rush 100% thought carbon fibre sounded cool and decided his ego would be able to beat physics into submission.

[popeye]

The Titan had a diving success rate of only 14% in just 5 years of use. For comparison Alvin, the most used deep submersible has a success rate of 98% even after half a century of its launch.

[jeffw]

People don’t understand that this had the potential to be safe if they did cycle testing.
Drop it to the ocean floor repeatedly until it is destroyed.
Then, build another one and do cycle testing again.
Then do it again.
If it takes ten trips to the ocean floor before it’s destroyed, then that means each vessel can only do five dives before you have to build a new one.
Problem is, building an entirely new vessel every five dives is prohibiting expensive and wasteful, and the company would likely never be profitable at that rate.

[DapperDill]

"He had a different risk appetite" is a nice way if saying he was bat-shit fucking insane.