"Look. There's that creepy Musk boy in his toy spaceship. Let's kick it over!"
"Nah, don't waste your time. He'll never amount to nuthin."
Heh heh heh.
Posted on 12/18/2024 5:55:29 AM PST by Red Badger
A documentary film is in the works about the ill-fated OceanGate Titan submersible, and it promises to tell the story behind the headlines about the underwater craft that imploded, killing all five of its passengers in June 2023.
The film is directed by Aron Arngrimsson, who was the last person to see the Titan crew alive before the small crew set out on its doomed fatal trip to see the remains of the Titanic on June 18, 2023, the Hollywood Reporter reported.
“He [Arngrimsson] exclusively tells the emotional experience of five Titan crew members, revealing the family stories behind the media headlines and exposing the painful consequences of an exploration gone wrong,” a synopsis from the producers read, per THR.
The documentary, currently in post production, comes from Arngrimsson’s Dirty Dozen Productions and RadicalMedia, the outlet noted.
“The unprecedented access Aron had to the Titan crew, their families and this story, was remarkable,” Stacey Reiss, executive producer at RadicalMedia, said.
“He was there, first-hand, experiencing all of this in real time,” she added. “It was extremely important to us to tell this story authentically, given the tremendous media attention it received.”
The movie will include actual first-hand footage taken by Arngrimsson of the Titan submersible heading out on its fatal expedition.
“We are committed to telling this important story with the thoroughness it deserves, through exclusive interviews with the Titan crew members and in the aftermath with the families,” Arngrimsson said in a statement about the project.
After the ship lost contact with Titan in June 2023, a four-day rescue mission from the United States and Canada ensued including using airplanes, boats, and submersibles in the attempt to find and save the crew, Variety noted.
On the fourth day, the United States Coast Guard announced that a remotely operated underwater vehicle had found debris from the Titan near the Titanic.
“A debris field was discovered within the search area by an ROV near the Titanic,” USGC Northeast said in a statement. “Experts within the unified command are evaluating the information.”
“A debris field implies a break-up of the submersible … that really sort of indicates what is the worst-case scenario, which is a catastrophic failure and generally that’s an implosion,” marine scientist and rescue expert David Mearns told Sky News.
“The only saving grace is that it would have been immediate — literally in milliseconds — and the men wouldn’t have known what was happening,” Mearns added.
I wanted one! It was made of cardboard...............
That $6.98 in 1965 dollars would be $70.58 in today’s dollars!......
https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=6.98&year1=196501&year2=202411
Who cares? Another ghoulish movie about Darwin award recipients.
Actually I had one of those cardboard subs as a kid. I was pretty cool.
"Look. There's that creepy Musk boy in his toy spaceship. Let's kick it over!"
"Nah, don't waste your time. He'll never amount to nuthin."
Heh heh heh.
“before the small crew set out on” a three hour tour, a three hour tour ...
I’m sure it will be a smash.
ISWYDT...🙄.........................
Maybe they’ll sell pancakes at the refreshment stand.
Gotta hand it to him. He put his money where his mouth was. He had been told the sub was getting weaker with each dive, but he wanted to make one last score.
🙄😁.........................
Exactly, some mediocre 90’s movie glorifying death causing people with too much money spent gazing into the darkness at it to become it.
The Wreck Of The Titan Told Of The Titanic’s Sinking — 14 Years Before It Happened
By Katie Serena
Published September 21, 2017
Updated April 15, 2019
https://allthatsinteresting.com/the-wreck-of-the-titan
Even more eerie that the minisub was named ‘Titan ‘!..............
Just what I was thinking.
OceanGate: We are going to build a sub from carbon fiber that Boeing rejected then glue that is glue metal endcaps on and use this to dive to the Titanic after being damaged by being dropped onto the barge that ships it and being hit by lightning and knowing the glass/plexiglass viewport was not rated for the depth.
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