I'm Rebecca LaVoy, and this is You Can't Make This Up.

You Can't Make This Up is the podcast where we uncover the true stories behind your favorite Netflix documentaries and films.

On today's episode, we take a closer look at the Netflix documentary film, Titan, the Ocean Gate submersible disaster.

And so when that initial news article popped up and it said tourists sub lost in the Atlantic, I knew right away it was Ocean Gate.

Today, we're talking to

director Mark Monroe and producer Lily Garrison. The world held its breath when it learned a

small sub bringing tourists to the wreck of the Titanic vanished beneath the ocean. After a fruitless

rescue mission, it was determined the underwater vessel imploded under the immense pressure

of the depths. Former employees said the quest to dive deeper in an unproven submersible

was driven by Ocean Gates founder Stockton Rush. His willingness to cut corners and ignore flaws

in the Titans Hall made its failure a, quote, mathematical certainty.

The Netflix documentary film, Titan, the Ocean Gate submersible disaster, explores how the tragedy at sea was the foreseeable result of a driven CEO, who, for years, ignored

the warnings his experimental sub was slowly breaking apart.

It takes us inside its many failed testings and Rush's refusal to acknowledge Titan's engineering

defects, which led to the death of its passengers, including his own.

He wanted fame.

First and foremost, to fuel his ego, fame.

That was what he wanted.

And he's got it.

Oh. theme. That was what he wanted. And he's got it. And I'm joined now by director Mark Monroe and producer Lily Garrison. Welcome to You Can't Make This Up. Thanks so much for having us. So this is not an incident that happened in the distant

past. It's the two-year anniversary of the Ocean Gate disaster. Why did you select this story

to cover now? Well, I have to say that in a certain way, I think that the film's subject and what the film ultimately says has become maybe more relevant in the last few months.

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