S3 Ep322: OceanGate: A Culture of Criminal Negligence (Part 2)
Crime Weekly
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4.8 • 9.5K Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2025
⏱️ 142 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 | Hello, everybody. Welcome back to Crime Weekly. I'm Stephanie Harlow. |
| 0:15.5 | And I'm Derek Lavasar. And today we're diving into part two of the Titan submersible disaster, the whole ocean |
| 0:22.8 | gate and Stockton Rush fiasco. |
| 0:25.1 | And I will say I'm very excited to really launch into this episode today because I put a lot |
| 0:30.2 | of work into it. |
| 0:31.3 | I did a lot of research. |
| 0:32.5 | I learned a lot. |
| 0:34.3 | I feel like I'm a submersible expert right now. |
| 0:36.7 | I got so many invites to go diving. Yeah. I mean, if any other companies are interested in bringing somebody on as a contractor to give, you know, advice on how submersible should be built, I know it all now. Choose me. That's why we're here in the first place. They brought people who thought they knew it. Oh, no, they brought people who knew. There were a couple there. They were like, we want to have people here that know what they're doing. And then when those people open their mouths, they were like, shut up. We don't want to know your opinion. Yeah, exactly. So yeah, we're going to get into it. A very, very interesting episode. Oh, very interesting. Lots of shocking things. Once again, I watched the Netflix thing. I talked about |
| 1:13.8 | all this stuff before. It's still even doing my own research, listening to the Coast Guard hearings, |
| 1:19.1 | looking at this testimony, going in deep to it, which I have like lawsuits and everything. |
| 1:24.0 | It's just unconscionable that this happened. It's even way 10 million times worse than we |
| 1:29.6 | thought. So we're going to talk about that. But first, we have a very exciting announcement. |
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| 1:54.3 | We're just waiting for the approval to say anything publicly. But just hold on tight. It's coming soon. The second thing, |
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