On June 18, 2013, Ocean Gates' Titan submersible imploded during an expedition dive to the Titanic,

killing all five on board, including Ocean Gate founder and CEO Stockton Rush.

Numerous industry experts and employees from within Ocean Gate itself had warned Rush of

impending doom, citing safety concerns and a lack

of testing. His hubris, ego, and reckless desire for innovation over all else cost him his life,

and that of four others. The catastrophic destruction of the Titan submersible sent shockwaves

through the ocean exploration industry that are still being felt today. The Ocean Gate Titan submersible sent shockwaves through the ocean exploration industry that are still being felt today.

The Ocean Gate Titan Submersible, a preventable tragedy, a two-part series available now on shipwrecks and sea dogs.

Listen wherever you get your podcasts. Something Hey, everybody, it's Will and it's story time.

Each of us lives a unique life that is constantly changed and shaped by the millions of

of conscious and unconscious choices we make every day.

Each of us is a complex collection of memories and aspirations, joys and sorrows,

all wrapped up in a sack of meat and bones that is here and gone in a blink of the cosmic eye.

Each of us lives on this little fragile planet that happens to be in the exact place it needs to be

to support our species. What a gift. We are living on it at this exact moment, which is unique

in ways we won't be able to see completely until we look back on this moment as history.

Now, for all of the uniqueness in our individual lives, for all the cultural and geographical differences

that belong solely to the members of one tribe, one nation, one neighborhood, there are two

things.

Every single one of us will experience no matter what. Grief and loss. It's part of the ticket price to life,

a universal experience that nobody wants to have, but we all share. There are two people right now on opposite sides of the planet, experiencing a loss

we can all relate to, processing it in very different ways. They will never meet or even know that

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