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00:05On June the 18th, 2023, the Titan submersible set out for the wreck of the Titanic.
00:15On board were five men, including the pilot and owner, Stockton Rush.
00:21When I started with this goal of getting people underwater, and I also wanted to go deep,
00:24I have what I call the deep disease.
00:26Titan descended two miles beneath the surface.
00:32Then, suddenly, all communication was lost.
00:37A sub was there, and then it was not.
00:42What was that like?
00:43Did they have a chance to worry about it? Not a chance.
00:47The submersible had suffered a catastrophic failure, and all five men on board were killed.
00:53I lost two people who were important in my life. They're not going to come back.
01:00With unprecedented access to the U.S. Coast Guard investigation...
01:04In about two minutes, they identify that they lost cons and tracking.
01:09Everyone in the world wants to know what happened to Titan.
01:12...and exclusive footage from inside the submersible.
01:15Yep, everything's good.
01:16...we reveal the truth behind the biggest scandal in deep sea exploration.
01:20I've gone back and forth a lot, like, whether I should have done more.
01:25Nothing is breaching the hull. It's the safest spot on the entire planet.
01:30What really happened on that fatal dive?
01:34If it wasn't an accident, it then has to be some degree of crime.
01:39Exploration is part of human nature.
01:49Exploration is part of human nature.
02:03In September 2024, 15 months after the Titan implosion, the U.S. Coast Guard convenes a public hearing into the cause of the disaster.
02:24The aim for Jason Neubauer and his team is not only to find out why Titan imploded, but to prevent this kind of failure ever happening again.
02:50I've met many of the families of the victims, and that is the one thing that keeps me driven.
03:00Seeing the impacts from a tragedy, every loss of life impacts hundreds of people.
03:08During the two-week hearing, the investigation team will question witnesses about their memories of Stockton Rush and his creation, the Titan Submersible.
03:23To get to the bottom of what went wrong on the fatal dive, they will have to delve back into how it all started.
03:33Carl Stanley has almost 30 years' experience diving submersibles.
03:40Mr. Stanley, the board's recorder, Lieutenant Steele, will now administer your oath.
03:45Good afternoon, sir. Please stand and raise your right hand.
03:47Do you solemnly swear that the testimony you're about to give will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?
03:56So help you God.
03:58Thank you. You may be seated.
04:02Good afternoon, Mr. Stanley.
04:04Mr. Keith Fawcett will have the first round of questioning for you, sir.
04:09Mr. Stanley, could you just talk about your experience and your interaction with Mr. Stockton Rush?
04:15My relationship with Stockton goes back at least 10, possibly up to 15 years.
04:22When I learned that he was making a carbon fiber sub, I told him I want to be a part of that.
04:28I saw that as an opportunity to dive deeper than I probably would have ever gotten to dive again.
04:34I was excited about it.
04:38I don't think Stockton started this whole project knowing that it would end in total disaster.
04:45I think he believed in having people have better access to the deep ocean.
04:55In April 2017, Stockton Rush was invited to the prestigious Explorers Club in New York,
05:02where he gave an impassioned presentation about his ambitions for deep sea exploration.
05:07Thanks very much.
05:12You may have seen in the write-up of this that I wanted to be an astronaut.
05:18That's why I got an engineering degree.
05:20I watched Star Trek, Star Wars.
05:22And I wasn't going to get to Jupiter or Mars.
05:25But I did realize that all the cool stuff that I thought was out there is actually underwater.
05:32He wanted to support science.
05:35He wanted to, you know, make this kind of adventure more approachable to the public.
05:45The goal was, where do you want to go in the ocean?
05:50What is the most known site in the ocean?
05:55And it's clearly the Titanic.
05:57And to go to the Titanic, which is at 3,800 meters, requires a special sub.
06:05Carbon fiber in subsea vehicles is really the right substance to use.
06:10It's three times better on a strength-to-buoyancy basis than titanium, the next best thing.
06:16Deep-diving passenger submersibles are made of steel or titanium, not carbon fiber.
06:22But Stockton was a strong advocate for using the untested material.
06:29It'd be the deepest diving carbon fiber sub ever built.
06:33But if we mess it up, there's not a lot of recovery.
06:36I'm good already, north-south.
06:39Stockton and Ocean Gate came on our radar probably in 2020.
06:43My job is to go around the world investigating great mysteries and to tell stories of exploration.
06:49And so we thought this would be an amazing opportunity to shine a light on what they were doing.
06:56Stockton wanted to bring more people to Titanic.
06:59So he built a vehicle that had a totally different shape, toilet paper tube.
07:04This carbon fiber hull that was built to be lighter and stronger from the space-age material,
07:09it had these big titanium end caps that would seal this cylinder.
07:13When I first saw it on the dock, it was kind of this marvel.
07:19Titan's design meant that it could carry five passengers down to depths.
07:25This will be one of the great moments of submersibles,
07:30in that this technology is what we need to explore the ocean depth.
07:34It's our belief that without innovative technologies and innovative business...
07:38Ocean Gate extensively documented their story for their archives.
07:44Their videos were used to promote Titan,
07:47to attract investors, the media,
07:49and passengers wanting to explore the ocean depths.
07:52Make the exploration possible.
07:53If you're starting a submarine company,
08:01is there a more famous destination in the world than Titanic?
08:05No.
08:06Where is your excitement factor on this?
08:08Oh, definitely at the level.
08:10By the time we're done testing it,
08:13I believe it's pretty much invulnerable.
08:15And that's pretty much what they said about the Titanic.
08:17That's right.
08:18To test the strength of Titan's carbon fibre hull,
08:27Stockton took the sub to deep waters just off the coast of the Bahamas.
08:32I got an email saying,
08:35come out to Marsh Harbour Bahamas and I have a spot open for you.
08:40This was the opportunity that sub-expert Carl Stanley had been waiting for.
08:45Okay, I'm good. Lock me up.
08:48Stockton told him that the incremental testing of Titan's hull
08:51had so far involved 46 dives,
08:55mostly shallow,
08:56with only three reaching deep sea pressure.
08:59All of our test programme has been about incremental testing.
09:03This is really focused on the pressure vessel
09:05and making sure that the most critical component of the sub
09:07is safe and capable of handling depths
09:11down to 4,000 metres repeatedly with people on board.
09:154,000 metres, or two and a half miles,
09:20is the depth of the seafloor where the Titanic lies.
09:24To succeed in reaching it,
09:26Titan would have to withstand crushing water pressures
09:28equal to two and a half tonnes bearing down on every square inch of the hull.
09:35I did not even come close to appreciating the real danger.
09:40I was the one that was like,
09:43hey, capture this moment.
09:44Like, I was happy to be there.
09:51Joining the dive that day
09:53was 25-year-old Petros Mathiodakis.
09:56He was in the Bahamas
09:58demonstrating an underwater scanner to Stockton,
10:00and he had jumped at the chance for a ride in Titan.
10:04I was aware that this was extremely risky,
10:08and Stockton was very clear.
10:11He said,
10:11do you have a wife?
10:14And I said,
10:15no.
10:16Do you have kids?
10:17And I said,
10:18nope.
10:19He said,
10:20okay, you're in.
10:28When you're inside of Titan,
10:29on your descent,
10:30you're just free-falling.
10:32You're just heavy,
10:33and your gravity is pushing you down.
10:38You're essentially in the dark,
10:41just enough light to see.
10:42And now,
10:43left is forward is down.
10:45On the left stick,
10:46this is down?
10:47That's up.
10:47That's up?
10:48Yep.
10:48That's down?
10:49Yep.
10:51The first time
10:52the carbon fiber made a noise in that hall,
10:55it was extremely loud.
10:56It was like a gunshot.
10:59Any noise would have been loud,
11:00but that was loud.
11:04Everyone stops talking for a little bit,
11:06and,
11:08okay, I think we're okay.
11:09You know?
11:09That loud,
11:13sudden noise
11:14that you know
11:16is essentially part of your pressure vessel breaking,
11:20I think that's going to scare anybody.
11:25But the alarming noises
11:26were not the only concern for those on board.
11:31When we got almost to the bottom,
11:33the lights on the exterior of the sub
11:35powered down.
11:36We had a bit of issue
11:47with one of the battery banks.
11:50Stockton had mentioned
11:50we're not seeing
11:52full vertical thruster availability.
11:56The supposed goal of the trip
12:07was to test it
12:08to the exact depth of the Titanic.
12:11We got 96% of the way there.
12:14Like, we're getting closer to it,
12:16but we're not touching it.
12:17You're on the dive.
12:20It's hard to put the brakes on that.
12:21So what are you going to do?
12:24The cracking sounds were continuing,
12:28so at some point,
12:30collectively,
12:30we came to a decision of,
12:33well, that's good enough.
12:34Let's call it a day.
12:39I'm sure we were within
12:40a few percentage points
12:42of implosion.
12:43After his experience,
12:50Carl Stanley decided
12:51to warn Stockton Rush
12:53that the noises could mean
12:55the sub's main hull
12:56was no longer safe.
12:59Mr. Stanley,
13:00you sent an email
13:01in April 18, 2019,
13:04I believe,
13:05to Mr. Rush.
13:06You say the sounds
13:07we observed yesterday
13:08sounded like a flaw,
13:10defect in one area
13:11being acted on
13:12by the tremendous pressures
13:13and being crushed,
13:15damaged,
13:16would indicate
13:16there is an area
13:17of the hull
13:18that is breaking down,
13:20getting spongy.
13:26I was very much concerned
13:28that I kept sending him emails
13:29for over a year,
13:31and I didn't even know
13:33a fraction of what we know now.
13:39You know,
13:39I feel this exchange of emails
13:41strained our relationship.
13:43I felt like I kind of
13:44pushed things as far as I could
13:45without just him telling me
13:47to shut up
13:49and never talk to him again.
13:52It's become clear
13:53during the investigation
13:54that the damage was worse
13:56than Carl had suspected.
13:58And after Dive 47,
14:00Stockton found out
14:02about a crack.
14:04After Dive 47,
14:06one of the pilots
14:07for Oceangate
14:08was getting ready
14:08to do a pre-dive
14:10inspection of the hull.
14:13And he was able
14:14to identify a crack
14:15in the carbon fibre.
14:17The layers of carbon fibre
14:19were beginning
14:20to come apart,
14:22known as a delamination.
14:24This is what
14:25had caused the crack.
14:30In the Arizona desert,
14:34Tim Catterson,
14:35one of Oceangate's
14:36contract safety divers,
14:37is building
14:38his own steel submersible.
14:41Using carbon fibre
14:42was an option
14:43he never even considered.
14:46Hardly anybody
14:47in the public
14:48is familiar
14:48with carbon fibre.
14:51It's stable
14:52all the way up
14:53until this magic point
14:56that it is not.
14:57The failure happens
15:00catastrophically,
15:02nearly explosively.
15:05As you're diving down,
15:07the pressure's
15:07getting greater.
15:09They heard big pops,
15:12so you got your fibres
15:13are like this.
15:14When this breaks like that,
15:16that would make
15:17some pretty loud pops.
15:18It's pulling apart
15:20from one side
15:20and is now starting
15:22to roll up
15:23underneath itself.
15:24That's delamination
15:25by its definition.
15:30The damage to Titan
15:31meant it would
15:32no longer survive
15:34the pressures
15:34of the deep ocean.
15:36So early in 2020,
15:38Stockton had no choice
15:39but to completely
15:40replace the hull,
15:42building once more
15:43with carbon fibre.
15:45He was convinced
15:48that with slight modifications
15:49to the processing
15:50of the carbon fibre,
15:52this sub would be able
15:54to repeatedly
15:54dive down to depth.
15:58It's been a long process
15:59to ensure
16:00that Titan
16:01can go to the Titanic
16:02repeatedly
16:03and safely.
16:04He was not going to be swayed
16:06from using carbon fibre.
16:07We've refined the process
16:08so that we have
16:10extremely uniform
16:11five-inch thick carbon fibre.
16:13where Stockton
16:14and Ocean Gate
16:15needed to maintain
16:16their company vision
16:17of taking people
16:18in a carbon fibre
16:20innovative submersible
16:21for the trip
16:22of a lifetime.
16:23I can't wait
16:24to get out
16:24to the Titanic.
16:28Titan was relaunched
16:29with its new
16:30carbon fibre hull
16:31early in 2021.
16:34The Titanic expedition
16:36plans were well underway
16:37but Ocean Gate
16:39had disregarded
16:40US guidelines
16:40for carrying passengers.
16:42They did not register it.
16:45Why would they
16:46not register it?
16:47One reason
16:48to not register
16:48is to make sure
16:50that no one
16:51from a regulatory standpoint
16:52is monitoring
16:53your operations.
16:55You know,
16:55by design
16:56to operate
16:57in a manner
16:58that you stay
16:59off the radar.
17:00The saga
17:01of the Titanic
17:02sinking and rediscovery
17:03has captured...
17:04At this GeekWire conference,
17:06Stockton Rush
17:07attempts to justify
17:08why Titan
17:09was not properly certified.
17:10And today
17:12we're honoured
17:12to host
17:13one of the explorers
17:14who is literally
17:15bringing new light
17:16to that saga.
17:17Stockton Rush.
17:18There are
17:19certifying agencies,
17:21the Pressure Vessels
17:22for Human Occupation Committee,
17:24the Subsafe program
17:25in the Navy.
17:27These programs
17:27are over the top
17:29in their rules
17:30and regulations
17:30but they had nothing
17:31with carbon fibre.
17:32So we had to go out
17:34and work on that
17:35and one of the things
17:36I learned is
17:36you know,
17:37when you're outside the box,
17:38it's really hard to tell
17:39how far outside the box
17:41you really are.
17:42And we were pretty far
17:43out there.
17:54Hey, Josh!
17:55Hey!
17:55How are you, man?
17:56Glad you made it!
17:57Nice to meet you, Chip.
17:58We had read about
17:59Ocean Gate
18:00and we thought
18:01this would be
18:01a great story
18:02for Expedition Unknown.
18:05Here was this innovator
18:06that was going to come
18:07and break design barriers
18:09and to create
18:09a next generation submersible.
18:14Discovery presenter
18:15Josh Gates
18:16saw Titan
18:17as his chance
18:18to take the trip
18:19of a lifetime.
18:22I'm all aboard.
18:23Hi, everybody.
18:23How are you?
18:24How's it going?
18:27Stockton
18:27was a really compelling salesman
18:29and that's a good way
18:30to describe him,
18:31I think.
18:31So this is
18:32the largest viewport
18:34on any deep-diving sub
18:36in planet Earth.
18:39Stockton's answers
18:40felt rehearsed.
18:41They felt
18:42like they were
18:43the smooth answers
18:44that you were bound
18:45to get
18:46as you cruised
18:47the showroom floor
18:48for a new car.
18:49Carbon fiber
18:50will be
18:50one-third the weight
18:51of a similar
18:52titanium structure.
18:54Right.
18:55We all rely
18:56on that Spidey sense.
18:57We all have
18:58that little voice
18:58that whispers to us.
18:59And that voice
19:00started whispering
19:01to me early on.
19:02All right.
19:04The only way
19:05to get in
19:05or out of Titan
19:06was through the front.
19:08Thank you, sir.
19:10Copy that.
19:12And so when you
19:13climbed inside of it
19:14and they closed
19:15that door,
19:16they seal you in
19:17from the outside.
19:18Okay, the door is closed.
19:19Now what's happening to it?
19:20They're bolting it in.
19:21How many bolts
19:22go around it?
19:22Four bolts.
19:23Four bolts.
19:24So we're in.
19:27Yes.
19:27We're sealed up.
19:28You are a prisoner.
19:30My prisoner.
19:31I'm happy to be here.
19:32Stockton just didn't see,
19:34even psychologically,
19:35the need for
19:37a way out
19:38of this sub.
19:42This is Titan.
19:43Topside.
19:43Topside.
19:44Titan.
19:45There you go.
19:46There you go.
19:47It's going to take it
19:48pretty steep.
19:49That's where it gets interesting.
19:54And again,
19:56down,
19:56we are underwater.
19:57We were in the sub
19:58for hours
19:59with Stockton.
20:00And the dive
20:01was interesting
20:03in that
20:04nothing really worked right.
20:06I'm having trouble
20:07with our port horizontal thruster.
20:10Okay.
20:11Show them that.
20:20Aft is unlocked.
20:22No UBT light.
20:24Got that?
20:25The sub didn't really do anything
20:27it was asked to do.
20:28This guy helped me down
20:29at Titanic too, right?
20:30Yeah.
20:31Yeah.
20:31Yep.
20:34They have an emergency
20:36overwrite on the VBT.
20:38Yes, we have a software problem.
20:39Then there was an issue
20:40with the software.
20:42The system crashed
20:43at one point.
20:44Hello?
20:44Can you copy?
20:47The motor doesn't even
20:47seem to be moving,
20:49but the control program
20:50says it's moving
20:51no current.
20:52Yep, I don't like
20:53when thrusters go out.
20:54We may just go back
20:55to the platform
20:55rather than go to the bottom.
20:57Okay.
20:57We're pretty much here.
20:59Hey, top side.
21:02I mean,
21:02it was
21:03non-functional
21:05is a good way
21:06to put it.
21:08And so eventually
21:09it was decided
21:10that we had to
21:11scrub the dive
21:12and bring it back
21:13to the surface.
21:15Okay, we're up.
21:17We're going to get
21:17some good footage.
21:18Big time.
21:19And this will make
21:19a different story.
21:21On the way back to port,
21:22Josh quizzed Stockton
21:24about being in Titan
21:25on deeper dives.
21:27How noisy is it
21:28when it goes down?
21:29Is it pretty quiet?
21:29Oh, it'll be quiet.
21:30There's usually a bang
21:31somewhere.
21:32Most subs have a bang
21:33of some type.
21:33When I was in the sub
21:34before,
21:35and it was,
21:36you know,
21:36I'll play you
21:37what it sounded like
21:37when the carbon fiber
21:38is collapsing around you
21:39and you don't have
21:40much time left.
21:41This is what it sounds like.
21:42And what,
21:43you just were sending,
21:44sending, sending
21:44at that point?
21:45No, no,
21:45I was going down.
21:46I kept going down.
21:47Because,
21:47why not?
21:50I don't know
21:51if it'll play
21:51on the speaker.
21:55Those click sounds,
21:56that wasn't
21:58a mouse clicking.
22:01And you could feel it.
22:02I was in the dome.
22:02I could feel
22:03these things popping.
22:05The second dive,
22:05I put earplugs in,
22:06and it worked
22:07much better.
22:08I just ignored it.
22:09Right.
22:10It wasn't just
22:11a red flag for me.
22:12It was like
22:13a flare had gone up.
22:15Josh confronted Stockton
22:17about how much
22:18testing Titan
22:19had undergone.
22:20Okay.
22:21Oh,
22:22we're back.
22:23So we've had
22:2452 dives
22:25in the sub to date.
22:26Test dives?
22:27Test dives.
22:28Okay.
22:28We spent a year and a half
22:28in the Bahamas
22:29testing the sub.
22:30But we've done
22:31a massive upgrade
22:32of the software systems
22:33and some of the
22:34external components.
22:36And we're testing.
22:37And so those things,
22:38you test, test, test.
22:39And I was thinking,
22:40when did they go back
22:42and test this new sub
22:44in the Bahamas?
22:45And I couldn't quite
22:46make the dates
22:47line up in my head.
22:49What Stockton
22:50hadn't told Josh
22:51was that this Titan,
22:54with its replaced hull,
22:55had only been tested
22:56so far
22:57on three shallow dives.
23:01Pieces of it
23:02were tested
23:03in the ocean.
23:04But the main
23:05pressure hull,
23:06once it was refabricated,
23:08never went back
23:09to depth.
23:11All right.
23:12I suddenly realized,
23:13what would it mean
23:14if I made this kind
23:15of promotional documentary
23:17about Stockton
23:19and about Ocean Gate
23:20that maybe inspired
23:21other people to go
23:22and take a ride
23:23in this sub?
23:24And then something
23:25happened to it.
23:26And so I made
23:27the really difficult
23:28decision to call up
23:29the president of the network
23:30and to fall on my sword
23:32and say,
23:33I know that this is
23:34something that
23:34was a big deal
23:35for you to sign off on
23:36and I appreciate
23:37the opportunity,
23:38but we shouldn't do this.
23:40This is a mistake.
23:41Something bad
23:41is going to happen here.
23:42Well, I'll get there.
23:44In the very short time
23:45that I spent with Stockton,
23:47it absolutely seemed
23:48like he had something
23:49to prove.
23:50Apparently Stockton's
23:51directing this too.
23:52Okay.
23:52He wanted to kind of,
23:55you know,
23:56damn the establishment
23:57and I'm going to kind
23:58of show them
23:58and I'm going to,
23:59you know,
24:00be this cutting edge
24:01entrepreneur and inventor
24:03and do it my own way.
24:05Certainly Stockton
24:11had the money.
24:13He had the vision.
24:15He had the drive
24:17to do this.
24:20He invited me once
24:21to go out flying with him.
24:25He's got an experimental
24:26aircraft.
24:29Experimental.
24:31And he said,
24:32do you want to fly?
24:33Give me that thing.
24:36So, you know,
24:37I'm flying the airplane
24:39a little bit.
24:40It's great fun.
24:42And then he says,
24:44do you want to do
24:44a barrel roll?
24:46Sure.
24:46He told me how to do it
24:48and then I did one.
24:53Basically,
24:54we were just doing
24:55this stuff
24:55and he said,
24:56you know,
24:56this is great.
24:57Nobody else ever wants
24:58to go and do this stuff.
25:00I said,
25:01well,
25:01it's either going to work
25:02or it's not going to work.
25:03You know,
25:04while we're doing it,
25:05it's going to be
25:06a, you know,
25:06a great fun time.
25:08Yeah,
25:08we could have crashed.
25:15Somewhere,
25:16somewhere in there,
25:18we were a kindred spirit.
25:20Why I kept working with him,
25:22I don't know,
25:23because I definitely
25:23did not say yes
25:24to him all the time.
25:25my dynamic with Stockton
25:33was interesting.
25:35We didn't agree on everything.
25:37You know,
25:37Stockton wasn't always right,
25:38but he was always sure
25:39he was right.
25:41Businessman and adventurer
25:43Alfred Hagen
25:44was one of the first
25:45to sign up for Stockton's
25:46Titanic expedition.
25:47I mean,
25:50he was a genius
25:51and he had a very
25:53distinct vision
25:54of what he was going
25:56to build,
25:56how he was going to do it,
25:57and what he was going
25:58to achieve.
25:58I'm here with Stockton Rush,
26:00who's the CEO
26:00of OceanGate.
26:02It's in...
26:02You know,
26:03there's no doubt
26:03in my mind
26:04that his primary motivations
26:05were more ego-driven
26:06than financially driven.
26:08You got the dry suit,
26:09you got the...
26:10Well,
26:10Stockton was guilty
26:11of hubris,
26:12and he's...
26:13People accuse him
26:14of trying to prove himself
26:15and live up to
26:17his own ancestry
26:18and...
26:19And those are
26:20relevant points.
26:21His family legacy
26:23was about the closest
26:24that you can get
26:25to royalty
26:26within the United States.
26:30Stockton was a true
26:31blue-blood patrician,
26:33as was his wife,
26:34Wendy.
26:35You know,
26:36her great-grandparents
26:37were the people
26:38that owned Macy's
26:39whose lives were lost
26:40on the Titanic.
26:42And she had
26:42that direct connection.
26:44They were of
26:45the upper crust.
26:50I don't think
26:51most people
26:52can even imagine
26:53the access
26:54that Stockton had
26:56to the Uber elites
26:59of the world.
27:01Stockton's father
27:02had been the president-elect
27:04of the Bohemian Club,
27:06which owns
27:07multi-thousand-acre
27:09reserve
27:11reserve of
27:12old-growth redwood forest
27:14an hour outside
27:15of San Francisco
27:16that they used
27:17for their private campground.
27:21Who cares
27:22where the original
27:23funding came from?
27:25You know,
27:25it doesn't matter.
27:26It's what he was doing with it.
27:27That's what mattered.
27:29He pitched an idea
27:31to people
27:32at the right place
27:33in the right time
27:34that threw money at him
27:36and he felt
27:37some kind of
27:38psychological need
27:39to accomplish something
27:41and impress these people.
27:44Don't miss the opportunity
27:45to be part of history.
27:48Ocean Gate Expeditions
27:49offers you
27:50the once-in-a-lifetime
27:51opportunity
27:52to be a specially trained
27:54crew member
27:54safely diving
27:55to the Titanic wreckage site.
27:57rushing things to market
28:02so that a business
28:03can become profitable
28:04or stay afloat
28:05is obviously dangerous.
28:09The Titanic
28:10is one of the most
28:12amazing brands
28:12in the world.
28:13People are so enthralled
28:15with Titanic
28:16that it became
28:18a must-do dive.
28:21And so
28:21from a business perspective
28:22it was very appealing.
28:24I understand the draw
28:26to go down
28:27and see the underwater world
28:29with the Titanic firsthand.
28:31But how do you
28:32keep the person safe
28:33who doesn't understand
28:34submersible operations
28:35who just knows
28:37they want to go
28:37see something unique
28:38and taking the ultimate
28:39risk like that?
28:41Especially in
28:42a kind of
28:43a commercial arrangement.
28:44they're paying passengers.
28:48That
28:48that is something
28:49the Coast Guard
28:50has to look at.
28:51So to confirm
28:52to become a mission specialist
28:54did you pay
28:55Ocean Gate any money?
28:57I did.
28:59As a mission specialist
29:00were you part of
29:01the submersible crew
29:02or were you a passenger?
29:05Well both.
29:06I was a passenger
29:07who was given
29:08the
29:09latitude
29:11to participate
29:12in the mission.
29:13I didn't
29:14do any of the
29:16what I would say
29:16critical items
29:17but certainly
29:19you know
29:20Titan bolts
29:20on the
29:21on the dome
29:22and other things
29:23that I would
29:24qualify as
29:25what we would
29:26say in a slang version
29:27monkey work.
29:30Alfred paid
29:31a discounted price
29:32of around
29:33$200,000
29:34to join the
29:35first expedition
29:36in 2021.
29:38He was on deck
29:39as Titan
29:39was launched
29:40for its first
29:41attempt
29:41to reach
29:42the Titanic.
29:42The dive
29:44number 61
29:45was abandoned
29:47at 7 meters
29:48but as the
29:49submersible
29:50was hauled
29:50back up the ramp
29:51another
29:51more serious
29:53failure occurred.
29:56Did you observe
29:57the incident
29:58as the dome
29:59fell off?
30:01Yes I did.
30:04The Titanium Dome
30:05there were only
30:06four bolts in it
30:07and they just
30:08sheared
30:08and they exploded
30:09like bullets
30:09and suddenly
30:11the people
30:11inside were
30:12looking out
30:12at the ocean
30:13down a ramp
30:14and obviously
30:15a horrifying
30:15moment.
30:17Stockton and
30:18his team
30:19had taken
30:19the decision
30:20that only
30:21four of a
30:22possible 18
30:23bolts
30:23needed to be
30:24used to fix
30:25the titanium
30:26dome to the
30:27carbon fiber
30:27hull before a
30:28dive.
30:29The thought
30:31with the
30:31four bolts
30:31was simply
30:32that once
30:32you went
30:33to depth
30:33you didn't
30:34need anything
30:35to hold on
30:35the pressure
30:36was so intense
30:37that you
30:38couldn't pry
30:38it off.
30:39Stockton wanted
30:40to appropriate
30:41any pictures
30:41or videos
30:42of the occurrence
30:43so there was
30:44a dedicated
30:45effort to
30:46hutch that
30:46up.
30:48Despite
30:48witnessing
30:49that incident
30:50Alfred remained
30:51determined to
30:52get down to
30:52the Titanic.
30:54It did not
30:54deter me
30:55because I
30:55understood that
30:56they made
30:57basically a dumb
30:58mistake and
30:58they had
30:59corrected it.
31:00It was not
31:00a safe operation
31:01it was an
31:02experimental
31:02vehicle.
31:05It was clear
31:06to me from
31:07Mr. Higgins
31:07testimony that
31:08he had a
31:09very high risk
31:09tolerance and
31:10that he felt
31:12like there was
31:13a possibility
31:14that the worst
31:15could occur.
31:17And when
31:18Alfred did get
31:19his chance to
31:19go on Titan's
31:20next dive
31:21they were forced
31:22to abort the
31:23attempt halfway
31:24down.
31:27Anyone that
31:28went down in
31:29it either knew
31:30or should have
31:30known how risky
31:31it was.
31:32They were either
31:33embracing that
31:34reality or they
31:35were delusional.
31:42Christine Dawood
31:44lost her husband
31:45and son in
31:46the implosion.
31:50She watched
31:51the hearings
31:51from her home
31:52in the UK.
31:54It felt like
31:55a real crime
31:56horror film
31:56to be honest.
31:58The strain
31:58of flying there
31:59and staying
32:01and going
32:02there would
32:03have been
32:03I think
32:04too much.
32:05I guess
32:06there was an
32:07element of
32:08doubt
32:08in myself
32:09like
32:11did I miss
32:12something?
32:13What could I
32:13have done
32:14differently?
32:21Ocean Gate
32:22celebrated
32:22reaching
32:23Titanic depths
32:24six times
32:25that summer.
32:30Stockton
32:31emboldened
32:32by their
32:32success
32:33was back
32:33in the North
32:34Atlantic
32:34with Titan
32:35for a second
32:36season of
32:36dives
32:37in 2022.
32:39Hi, my name
32:41is Stockton
32:42Rush.
32:42I'm the
32:43CEO and
32:43founder of
32:43Ocean Gate.
32:44Let's take
32:44a look at
32:45Titan.
32:46So we're
32:47coming into
32:47the sub.
32:48This is the
32:49only toilet
32:50available on
32:51a deep diving
32:52submersible.
32:53Best seat
32:53in the house.
32:54You can look
32:54out the viewport.
32:55We put a
32:55privacy screen
32:56in, turn
32:57up the music.
32:58It's very
32:59popular.
33:00We have our
33:00control screen
33:01here, our
33:02sonar screen
33:03here.
33:05This is the
33:05second year
33:06we've been out
33:06to the Titanic.
33:08We're completely
33:08privately funded
33:09operation and
33:10we're funded
33:11by what we
33:11call mission
33:12specialists who
33:13help support
33:13the mission.
33:14So they take
33:14quite a bit of
33:15money.
33:15We want to
33:15document what
33:16the wreck is
33:17like now and
33:17also try to
33:18predict what
33:18it will be
33:19like in the
33:19future.
33:26Midway through
33:26the season,
33:27Antonella
33:28Wilby joined
33:28the ship as
33:29a contract
33:29crew member.
33:31She is an
33:31expert in
33:32underwater
33:32remotely
33:33operated
33:33vehicles.
33:34From the
33:36moment I
33:37stepped onto
33:38the ship,
33:39I never
33:39forgot it.
33:40I was
33:40signing, I
33:41had to
33:41sign the
33:41liability
33:42waiver and
33:43Stockton was
33:44there and
33:45two, a
33:45room full of
33:46people, some
33:47of them who
33:47had paid him
33:48lots of
33:48money to be
33:49there.
33:50All I
33:50really knew
33:50was a
33:51quarter million
33:51dollar price
33:52tag.
33:53He says,
33:54the company's
33:54registered in
33:54the Bahamas and
33:55they don't do
33:56punitive damages
33:56so don't even
33:57bother suing me.
33:58And he says
33:59this with a
33:59laugh.
34:00And I was so
34:01shocked I wrote
34:01it down, that's
34:02a verbatim
34:02quote because I
34:03wrote it down
34:03right after
34:04this meeting
34:05because I
34:05was just
34:06shocked.
34:09I wasn't even
34:10aware the
34:11extent of how
34:13ridiculous and
34:15unsafe their
34:15operation was.
34:17Even just the
34:18level of
34:18attention to
34:19detail in
34:19inspecting the
34:20sub or
34:21pre-diving the
34:21sub.
34:23You know, I'd
34:23walk around
34:23right before a
34:24dive and just
34:24find, you
34:25know, cables
34:26that were
34:26loose or
34:27unplugged.
34:28We wouldn't
34:29send an ROV
34:30down like
34:30that and I
34:32don't have
34:32people on
34:33an ROV.
34:34It's
34:34entirely
34:34remotely
34:35operated.
34:38How does
34:38this guy
34:39keep taking
34:39this sub
34:40down?
34:42Delusion
34:42or desperation?
34:45Someone who
34:46is so
34:47deep into
34:48this and
34:50has so
34:50many creditors
34:51at the
34:51door and
34:52has their
34:52personal
34:53reputation
34:53on the
34:54line that
34:55they have
34:56to move
34:56forward and
34:57keep
34:58forging
34:58ahead because
35:00there's no
35:00other path.
35:02basically it's
35:04like, pay
35:04no attention
35:04to the man
35:05behind the
35:05curtain.
35:06We're going
35:06to work
35:07on to talk
35:07about all
35:07these different
35:08little things.
35:09No one
35:09actually notices,
35:10wait a second,
35:11like, there's
35:12a bigger
35:13problem here.
35:14It felt
35:15like watching
35:16some really
35:17bizarre
35:18surrealist movie
35:19or something
35:20and I'm the
35:20only one
35:20going,
35:21this is
35:22insane,
35:22right?
35:27All right,
35:28good morning,
35:28everyone.
35:30Headed back
35:31to the Titanic.
35:32Right now,
35:33we did vessel
35:33checks this
35:34morning,
35:35a couple
35:36very minor
35:37anomalies,
35:38which is
35:38great.
35:42On the
35:42morning of
35:4315th of
35:44July,
35:44the Titan
35:45crew prepared
35:46for dive
35:4680.
35:50Alfred was
35:51back in the
35:51hope of
35:52finally seeing
35:52the Titanic
35:53up close.
35:55It was
35:56one of those
35:57moments where
35:57you embrace
35:58the possibilities,
35:59you embrace
36:00the unknown.
36:00Titan is
36:08a go for
36:08a dive to
36:09the Titanic.
36:10In that
36:11moment,
36:11you're living
36:12a life
36:12trembling with
36:13joy.
36:14That's the
36:15essence of
36:16what I felt.
36:22Unlocked.
36:22Unlocked.
36:23We're
36:23unlocked.
36:24Okay.
36:24Oh, my God.
36:53That's it.
36:53Yeah, yeah, yeah.
36:56Pretty close.
36:58Yeah.
36:59That's it.
37:00That's it.
37:01That's it.
37:01Right at the
37:01bottom.
37:09Oh, my God.
37:10We're pretty close
37:10here.
37:15Above here?
37:15Oh, yeah.
37:16Oh, yeah.
37:16Dr.
37:16Fennell, number
37:17one.
37:19Where is the
37:19actual phone?
37:20Oh, my God.
37:21Oh, they're
37:22on their stern.
37:24It's a devastating
37:26thing to look at,
37:27but it's also
37:27awe-inspiring
37:28and inspirational
37:30in some ways
37:31and deeply
37:32sobering.
37:33And that's
37:37where they were
37:37launching the
37:38lightboats.
37:39Yeah.
37:44After the dive,
37:46it took two hours
37:47for Titan to
37:47return to the
37:48surface.
37:54Right now,
37:55we're doing
37:55three knots,
37:56and we're trying
37:56to get back
37:57to the sun.
37:58We were
38:00ascending in
38:01the Titan.
38:01We were actually
38:02fairly close to
38:03the surface,
38:03as I remember,
38:04and we heard
38:05a loud crack.
38:12Sounded like
38:12the ship
38:13breaking apart.
38:14It was very loud.
38:16It was very
38:16dramatic,
38:17and everyone
38:18sat up and
38:18like,
38:19what was that?
38:22Look at that
38:22blue.
38:24It's getting
38:25bright.
38:26Yeah.
38:28I can see
38:29the surface
38:30at most.
38:32That's a pretty
38:33welcome sight.
38:36I spoke to
38:37a member of
38:37the Horizon
38:38Arctic crew
38:38about a bang
38:39that was heard.
38:41I was, you know,
38:42just concerned
38:43and kind of shocked
38:43that this had
38:44happened,
38:45and he told me
38:46that he heard
38:46this bang.
38:47He was able
38:48to hear it
38:48from the surface.
38:50It must have
38:50been loud.
38:52When we got
38:53to the surface,
38:53Scott was piloting,
38:54he heard a really
38:55loud bang,
38:56not a
38:57soothing sound,
38:58but on the surface,
39:00and as Tim and
39:01PH will attest,
39:04almost every
39:04deep-diving sub
39:05makes a noise
39:06at some point.
39:07You have
39:07dissimilar shapes
39:08and metals
39:09that are expanding
39:11due to thermal
39:12interaction,
39:13due to pressure
39:13changes,
39:14and it's quite
39:15common to have
39:16a noise.
39:18I heard that,
39:18and I was just
39:19like shocked,
39:20and no one else
39:20really sort of reacted,
39:21and then Stockton
39:22sort of shut it down
39:22and, you know,
39:23just, oh,
39:24we'll talk about
39:24that later,
39:25and, you know,
39:26but for me,
39:27my initial reaction
39:28was like,
39:28hold on,
39:29you know,
39:29you don't,
39:31even if you heard
39:32your car make
39:32that sort of noise,
39:33you'd probably
39:33stop and go,
39:34wait a second,
39:35we need to,
39:35like,
39:35see what happened
39:36here.
39:40At the U.S.
39:41Coast Guard
39:41headquarters,
39:43Lieutenant Commander
39:43Katie Williams
39:44has been studying
39:45the data from
39:46Dive 80
39:47obtained from
39:48Oceangate.
39:49This picture here
39:52is of the placements
39:54of the acoustic
39:55admission sensors
39:56on the Titan.
39:58These acoustic sensors
39:59pick up and record
40:01any noise
40:01from the carbon
40:02fiber hull.
40:05Oceangate recorded
40:06this data
40:07and they plotted it.
40:09On Dive 80,
40:10this purple line
40:11was a loud bang.
40:13There is this
40:13huge amplitude.
40:19When they heard
40:21this loud bang,
40:22there should have
40:23been all stop,
40:24do not continue,
40:25investigate further
40:26to make sure
40:27that that carbon
40:28fiber hull
40:28was still safe
40:29for people to operate in.
40:31The data reveals
40:33that the loud noise
40:34was, in fact,
40:36the carbon fiber
40:37delaminating.
40:39Titan's hull
40:40was beginning
40:41to break apart.
40:46You don't need
40:47to be a composites
40:48expert.
40:49To think,
40:50okay,
40:51maybe we need
40:52to step back
40:52and stop the operation
40:53until we figure out
40:55what this actually means.
40:57But, of course,
40:58as with anything
40:59with Oceangate,
41:00the response was
41:01to just go,
41:02oh, okay,
41:03and then just keep going.
41:06Their system said
41:08there has been
41:08a fundamental change
41:09in the material
41:10of your carbon fiber
41:11and it was no longer
41:12structurally sound.
41:14Delamination at Dive 80
41:15was the beginning
41:16of the end.
41:17and everyone
41:18that stepped on board
41:19the Titan
41:20after Dive 80
41:21was risking their life.
41:26I've gone back
41:27and forth a lot,
41:28like,
41:29whether I should have
41:30done more,
41:30you know,
41:30whether there's some
41:31moral obligation
41:32to do more.
41:35Antonella contacted
41:36the Coast Guard
41:37and volunteered
41:37to give evidence
41:38at the hearing
41:39by video link.
41:41I felt like it was
41:42the right thing
41:42to do to,
41:43you know,
41:44share what I knew
41:44and tell that part
41:46of the story.
41:47Lieutenant Commander Williams.
41:49So as I understand it,
41:50you were present
41:51during Dive 80
41:52on July 15, 2022,
41:55where a loud bang
41:57was heard upon servicing.
41:58Am I correct?
42:00Yes.
42:00Can you please tell me
42:02in detail
42:03about what you know
42:05about that dive?
42:07I wanted to say
42:09something before
42:10the next dive
42:11because they were
42:12going to be diving
42:12the sub
42:13a couple days later.
42:15I went to Amber Bay,
42:18the director
42:18of administration.
42:22I told her
42:23I was really concerned
42:24that they were going
42:24to continue diving
42:25the sub.
42:26Her initial response
42:28was, yes,
42:28people are concerned
42:29about you too.
42:30You don't have
42:31an explorer mindset.
42:32Talking about explorer mindset,
42:33like, this is not a mindset
42:34that you should have
42:35for doing anything.
42:37I did also talk
42:37to Phil Brooks.
42:38He's the director
42:39of engineering.
42:40And I asked him,
42:41are you going to keep
42:41diving the sub?
42:42And he said, yeah,
42:43we'll do the next mission
42:44and then we'll
42:44visually inspect it.
42:46And I was just shocked
42:47by this.
42:47I'm like, you're going
42:47to continue diving it.
42:48Like, you don't know
42:49what's wrong
42:50and you've seen evidence
42:51that something has happened
42:52in the hull.
42:53And I said,
42:54something has gone
42:55really wrong here.
42:58The hull itself,
43:02you're not going
43:02to hurt the hull.
43:03From a standpoint
43:04of the passenger safety,
43:05you're going to be alive
43:06because the hull,
43:07nothing is breaching the hull.
43:08It's the safest spot
43:09on the entire planet.
43:11But the stuff around it
43:12can get smashed
43:13and mangled
43:13and then that can delay
43:14launches and dives
43:15and all kinds of stuff.
43:17They offered to send me home
43:18and I said, yes.
43:19You know,
43:20no one even looked at me.
43:21Like, I just grabbed my duffel bag
43:22and walked off the ship
43:23and, like, people
43:24wouldn't make eye contact
43:26with me.
43:28After dive 80,
43:30Stockton was undeterred
43:32and over the following week,
43:34Titan carried passengers
43:35on three further deep dives.
43:42Two and a half miles down
43:44and it's difficult.
43:45That's why no one else does it.
43:46After dive 80,
43:50every single time
43:51you would go down to depth,
43:53you were further damaging
43:54that hull.
43:55Eventually,
43:56something bad
43:57was going to happen.
44:02You guys should be able
44:03to see it.
44:04All right.
44:05Right now,
44:06they will cruise around the bow
44:07and they'll spend
44:08about two hours on that
44:09and then they'll come up
44:10and take about
44:10two and a half hours
44:11to get to the surface.
44:12Okay.
44:12Next up, Titanic.
44:14Titan reports on bottom.
44:16Woo!
44:16Woo!
44:17Woo!
44:17Woo!
44:17Woo!
44:18Woo!
44:18Woo!
44:18Woo!
44:18Woo!
44:19Woo!
44:19Woo!
44:19Woo!
44:20Woo!
44:20The unique thing
44:21that we're doing here
44:21and we're in a unique spot
44:23where a site
44:24where so many people
44:25pass away,
44:26there are a lot
44:27of, you know,
44:27parallels.
44:28That was a ship
44:29that was, you know,
44:29more of the finest ships
44:30of its day
44:31and I think we have
44:32a sub
44:32that's one of the finest subs.
44:33We want to make sure
44:35we do things safely
44:36and have a good outcome
44:38and are able to
44:39take people down
44:40to the wreck
44:41for many years to come.
44:46I think he painted himself
44:48in a corner
44:49and if he admits
44:51defeat and failure
44:53and then has to
44:55tell this to the people
44:57that had given him
44:58so much money,
44:59what's the rest
45:00of his life look like?
45:01There's no possible way
45:03that Stockton
45:03didn't know
45:04how this was going
45:05to end.
45:06It was just a matter
45:07of is it going to fail
45:08with me in it
45:09or with other people?
45:12It was obvious
45:13that it was going to fail
45:14in some way.
45:20This arrogance
45:21of the people in charge
45:23when they think
45:24they're above everything,
45:28that really gets to me.
45:33Like, why is ego
45:34and arrogance
45:35more important
45:36than safety?
45:39The irony is not lost
45:40on me
45:41that the Titanic
45:41sunk for exactly
45:43the same reason.
45:47In May 2023,
45:49Stockton and the
45:50Ocean Gate team
45:51brought Titan back
45:52to the North Atlantic
45:53for its third season.
45:55For the first few weeks,
45:57poor conditions meant
45:58four dives
45:59were cancelled
46:00or aborted.
46:02Then,
46:03one morning,
46:05the weather
46:05finally broke.
46:08It was a perfect
46:11day for diving.
46:13The seas were calm,
46:15the wind was down.
46:17What was your
46:18responsibility
46:19on that day?
46:20Basically,
46:21I did all the dive checks
46:24for the platform.
46:26Stockton was the pilot.
46:27He was doing
46:28all the internal checks.
46:30He's like,
46:30this is great,
46:31this is great.
46:33We get to dive.
46:37On board Titan
46:38with Stockton
46:39was adventurer
46:40Hamish Harding,
46:43Titanic expert
46:44Paul-Henri Narjalee,
46:46and Shahzada Dawood
46:48and his 19-year-old son,
46:50Suleiman.
46:52Suleiman knew
46:54nothing about it.
46:55This was just
46:55his grand adventure.
46:57As the same
46:57for his father,
46:59Suleiman was
47:00close to the last
47:02to going in.
47:03And when he came up,
47:04I grabbed him
47:05by the back
47:06of his flotation device,
47:09you know,
47:09pull him
47:10and make sure
47:10he's not going to
47:11go sliding off
47:12into the water.
47:13And I helped him
47:16get in.
47:17I helped him
47:19get into the sub,
47:21and then I said,
47:22have a good dive.
47:23At 9.14 a.m. local,
47:38according to the
47:38Polar Prince deck log,
47:40the Titan disengaged,
47:43maneuvered away,
47:44and proceeded to dive
47:45with five persons aboard.
47:47They're going down
47:52to see the Titanic.
47:52You have this young boy,
47:56you know,
47:57who's excited.
47:58His dad's excited for him.
48:00The quiet, right?
48:03What questions,
48:05what conversations
48:06were they having?
48:07For the next 90 minutes,
48:13Titan descended
48:13towards the Titanic.
48:17Communications
48:18continued throughout
48:19the descent.
48:20There were no transmissions
48:21which indicated trouble
48:23or an emergency
48:24aboard the Titan.
48:26At 10.47.33 a.m. local,
48:30the Titan was pinged
48:31for the final time.
48:32With Titan just 500 meters
48:36from the ocean floor,
48:38all communication was lost.
48:44Recently retrieved video
48:46from the support ship cameras
48:47has allowed the Coast Guard
48:49to see that moment
48:50for the first time.
48:54Okay, so what you're going
48:55to see is Miss Rush
48:57as she is on the comms
48:59and track.
49:00She leads that team, right?
49:01Yes.
49:02You will hear a noise
49:04that is external to the ship
49:05or external to the room,
49:07I should say,
49:07and you will see
49:09their reaction to the noise.
49:10Okay.
49:11Where's the gun?
49:14Yeah.
49:15Yeah.
49:15We should be gone.
49:17Why don't we do starting?
49:22What was that?
49:22Like...
49:25So at that point,
49:26you said,
49:27what was that bang?
49:28What was that bang?
49:28I'm going to back up
49:29and play it one more time.
49:30It sounds like a door slamming.
49:32What was that bang?
49:34Yeah.
49:35Yeah.
49:35Yeah.
49:36It should be about
49:37500 meters.
49:39Yeah.
49:42What's that bang?
49:45Now next,
49:46she's going to look
49:46at the computer
49:47and she says,
49:48drop two weights.
49:49Drop two weights
49:50was the last message
49:52from the Titan up through.
49:54Right.
49:54The message actually comes in
49:56after they heard the noise
49:58of what could possibly
49:59have been the implosion noise.
50:01Right.
50:01Okay.
50:02Drop two weights.
50:07Titan, drop two weights.
50:10It appears that she thinks
50:11something happened
50:12or she senses something
50:14and then the relief
50:15once she sees drop two.
50:16Here is here in the platform.
50:19What we believe
50:20is implosion sound
50:20came first
50:22before the computer message
50:24of drop two weights
50:25based upon the speed
50:26at which
50:27the acoustic telemetry modem chat
50:29and the speed of actual sound.
50:31That final text
50:34took several seconds
50:35to arrive on screen,
50:37longer than the sound
50:39of the implosion
50:40took to reach the ship.
50:43That is,
50:44I mean,
50:45you figure
50:45it's a fatal moment,
50:47you know,
50:47all...
50:48Mm-hmm.
50:51It is.
50:52It's very sobering.
50:59Seven hours
51:00after communication
51:01was lost with Titan,
51:03Oceangate notified
51:04the U.S. Coast Guard
51:05and a four-day search began.
51:08The search and rescue mission
51:09is underway
51:10after an underwater vessel
51:12used to take people
51:13to view the wreck
51:14of the Titanic
51:15went missing
51:16in the Atlantic Ocean.
51:17The Canadian Coast Guard,
51:18they have new ships
51:19that have just arrived on scene.
51:21The Horizon Arctic,
51:22a ship that can drop
51:23a remotely operated vehicle,
51:25but if they find that sub,
51:26they've got a huge challenge
51:27lifting it up
51:28out of the water,
51:29maybe from a depth
51:30of two and a half miles.
51:35There's no other explanation
51:38for losing comms
51:40and tracking
51:41when they weren't yet
51:42at the bottom
51:43other than implosion.
51:45They found
51:46what they were looking for.
51:48It was no longer
51:49a search and rescue,
51:50but a recovery.
51:50they found debris.
51:59They found debris.
52:07Stockton would have understood
52:09the reality of an implosion
52:13being instantaneous and painless.
52:16you're talking about
52:17something happening
52:18in a fraction of a second
52:20where you're exposed
52:21to temperatures
52:22hotter than the sun
52:24and pressures
52:26more than double
52:28what's inside a scuba tank.
52:29So they, you know,
52:31they didn't feel
52:32a single,
52:33it's basically
52:33the perfect painless
52:35way to die.
52:36this was a moment in time
52:43when their sub was there
52:44and then it was not.
52:46This is the life
52:55of my son
52:56and my husband
52:56they're talking about.
52:58This is the life
52:59of Hamish
53:00and two others
53:01who died there, right?
53:03So it's,
53:05it was deeply personal.
53:09I would never want
53:10anybody to go
53:11through that pain.
53:16So here is a picture
53:24of the aft dome
53:25that came up.
53:27It is filled with
53:28carbon fiber,
53:29fiberglass,
53:30electronic parts.
53:32As we're pulling
53:33each item out
53:34we have to
53:34individually separate it
53:36and we placed it
53:37out on two tarps.
53:40So we're sifting
53:42through and
53:43we realized
53:44what it was
53:45the clothing material.
53:47It was a portion
53:48of Mr. Rush's suit.
53:51The piece of his sleeve
53:53that had survived.
53:55No, not the whole suit.
53:56Just that.
53:57And inside of
53:58the sleeve of it
53:59was ink pen,
54:02business cards
54:03and stickers
54:06for the Titanic.
54:15My belief
54:17with the dead
54:18is just
54:18leave them alone.
54:20Same goes
54:21for Stockton.
54:23I wish he was here
54:24right now
54:25and I would smack
54:25him one,
54:26you know.
54:30It's,
54:30it does no good
54:32to,
54:32to,
54:33to speak ill
54:34of the dead.
54:35their voices
54:42are still
54:42in the house.
54:44Their memories
54:45are in the house.
54:50I think I will
54:51never be the same
54:52person,
54:53ever.
54:56I don't think
54:57that anybody
54:57who goes through
54:59loss and
55:00such a trauma
55:02can ever
55:02be the same.
55:05As the U.S.
55:06Coast Guard
55:07investigation
55:07draws to a close,
55:09Christine has
55:10to face
55:11their conclusion.
55:14It doesn't change
55:15the fact
55:15that they are dead.
55:18No matter
55:19what the investigation
55:20is,
55:22the rooms
55:22are still empty.
55:24They're not
55:24going to come back.
55:25They're never
55:25going to come back.
55:27So,
55:28do I need
55:29to know
55:30exactly what happened
55:31in order
55:31to come
55:33to terms
55:33with these
55:34empty rooms
55:34or not?
55:36And I don't
55:37know the answer yet.
55:38It's a process.
55:48After almost
55:49two years
55:50investigating
55:51the tragedy,
55:52the Marine
55:52Board of
55:53Investigation
55:54reviews the
55:54findings,
55:55which will
55:56eventually
55:56inform their
55:57report
55:57and recommendations.
56:00Ocean Gate
56:01gave this idea
56:02that they
56:03were safe.
56:04But when you
56:04look at all
56:05of the things
56:06that Ocean Gate
56:07bypassed
56:07and didn't do,
56:09safety was not
56:10their priority.
56:10It was a monetary
56:11gain.
56:12He was arrogant
56:12and he felt
56:13that his way
56:14was the only way
56:14and the best way.
56:16And I mean,
56:16I don't know why
56:17he felt that way,
56:17but he did.
56:18But he did.
56:18And, you know,
56:21people perished
56:21because of it.
56:22Mm-hmm.
56:24There were so many
56:25opportunities for Stockton
56:27to stop this operation
56:28from happening
56:29and he always chose
56:30to continue the operation
56:32instead of thinking
56:34about it
56:35from a safety perspective.
56:36With regards
56:38to the actions
56:38and the inactions
56:39of Mr. Rush,
56:41continued failures
56:42to properly inspect
56:45the hall,
56:45failures to properly
56:47identify risks
56:49and risk mismanagement.
56:51So many steps
56:52and so many failures
56:52that got to where
56:53this happened.
56:54So really what we have
56:55here is not an accident.
56:58It's a potential crime.
57:02He knew the risks
57:03he was taking
57:03with that carbon fiber
57:04hall
57:04and with the Titan,
57:06but he didn't tell
57:07anybody else
57:07about those risks
57:08because he had
57:10to make the money.
57:15When people are doing
57:17things like
57:18spending a quarter
57:19million dollars
57:20in a death tube
57:22controlled by
57:22a game controller
57:24that wasn't tested
57:25by a guy
57:26that's telling you
57:27how he wants
57:29to be remembered
57:29for breaking rules,
57:31it's a message
57:33to the super wealthy,
57:36the oligarchy,
57:36if you will,
57:37that your money
57:38can't buy everything.
57:40If you want to be
57:42an explorer,
57:43an inventor,
57:45an innovator,
57:46that's awesome.
57:47But when you start
57:49inviting the public,
57:51when you bring a kid
57:52into this thing
57:54you've invented,
57:55you have a responsibility
57:57at that point
57:58to be totally forthright
58:00about what it is
58:02that you're offering.
58:06We all know
58:07who the culprit is.
58:11It's not changing
58:12anything, does it?
58:15The culprit died
58:16with them, right?
58:17So,
58:18who am I to blame?
58:21It's not changing
58:24too,
58:25but this is theaint
58:30that you would
58:30tiger is living
58:31down there
58:34in her country.
58:36It is not changing
58:37but it is one
58:38of many settings
58:41as it is for you.
58:43So be carga
58:43in your mind
58:44and if you're
58:45and see aside
58:47it is a invention
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