S3 Ep320: OceanGate: A Preventable Tragedy (Part 1)
Crime Weekly
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4.8 • 9.5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2025
⏱️ 117 minutes
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Summary
He called it innovation. Critics called it recklessness. And five people would pay the ultimate price. In this series, we’re diving deep into the story behind the Titan submersible disaster. From the birth of OceanGate and Stockton Rush’s obsession with rewriting the rules of deep-sea exploration, to ignored warnings, missing safety certifications, and a catastrophic implosion that sent shockwaves across the globe. Who was Stockton Rush- visionary pioneer or dangerous idealist? What happened in the final hours of the Titan’s descent? And how did a vessel built for discovery become a tomb in the dark silence of the Atlantic?
This is not just a story about engineering failure; it’s a story about ego, ambition, and the fatal cost of a man with a god complex who gambled with human lives in the name of legacy.
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| 0:00.0 | It was marketed as a voyage for the boldest among us. A ticket to the bottom of the world, or only a handful of humans had ever dared to go. |
| 0:21.6 | But what began as a high-tech adventure turned into an unthinkable tragedy, and at the |
| 0:26.9 | center of it all was one man, Stockton Rush. |
| 0:30.6 | He called it innovation, critics called it recklessness, and five people would pay the ultimate |
| 0:36.0 | price. |
| 0:37.2 | In this series, we're diving deep into the story behind the Titan submersible disaster. |
| 0:42.4 | From the birth of Ocean Gate and Stockton Rush's obsession with rewriting the rules of deep |
| 0:47.0 | sea exploration, to ignored warnings, missing safety certifications, and a catastrophic |
| 0:53.1 | implosion that sent shockwaves across the globe. |
| 0:56.7 | Who was Stockton Rush? Visionary pioneer or a dangerous idealist? |
| 1:01.2 | What happened in the final hours of the Titan's descent? |
| 1:04.0 | And how did a vessel built for discovery become a tomb in the dark silence of the Atlantic? |
| 1:09.2 | This is not just a story about engineering failure. |
| 1:12.3 | It's a story about ego, ambition, and the fatal cost of a man with a God complex |
| 1:17.7 | who gambled with human lives in the name of Legacy. |
| 1:34.5 | Music Hello, everybody. |
| 1:36.5 | Welcome back to Crime Weekly. |
| 1:37.7 | I'm Stephanie Harlow. |
| 1:38.8 | And I'm Derek Lavasser. |
| 1:43.8 | So we are, as you heard from the teaser, talking about the Titan submersible disaster. This was huge. |
| 1:45.5 | This was a huge thing. I remember when the news report started coming in and it was all over. |
| 1:51.9 | It was all anyone that I was talking about and they had a countdown for how many hours of oxygen |
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