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MAN: Our crews are working
around the clock

to ensure that we are doing
everything possible

to locate the Titan
and the five crew members.

MAN: Search efforts have continued
through last night and today.

The unified team is working to bring
all available assets

and expertise to bear
as quickly as possible...

...in an effort to solve
this very complex problem.

An international
search and rescue team

is scouring the ocean for any sign

of the missing submersible
on a voyage to the Titanic.

MATT FREI: After 48 hours lost
at the bottom of the ocean,

will the minisub meet the same fate
as the wreckage it was looking for?

NARRATOR: It's a story
that captivated the world -

when five men dive
to the wreck of the Titanic

and go missing somewhere
in the Atlantic Ocean.

The scale of the search
to find them is unprecedented.

Canadian Coast Guard,
French authorities,

you had American Coast Guard,
ships, aeroplanes.

It was frantic.

As the whole world watches,
it's a race against time.

They only have so much
life support on board,

and the oxygen is running out.

Air force sonar recordings
gave the world hope.

And I identified banging noises
that appeared to be man-made.

That's when the search
really changed direction.

The vital audio revealed here
for the first time.

TAPPING

We need to have hope, right?

We're searching
where the noises are.

That's all we can do at this point.

But what actually went wrong,

and how many safety warnings
were ignored...

We've taken a completely new
approach to the sub design,

and it's all run with this game
controller and these touch screens.

...by the self-confessed
rule-breaker at the helm?

He seemed to think that he knew
more than the regulators.

So who were they to regulate him?

We all need pioneers.
Ego's not a bad thing.

It's a great driver,
but it also can be a killer.

And what is the truth

behind this extraordinary tale?

All sorts of things
started to come out.

Fingers started to be pointed.

Everyone has a theory
on what happened.

Very few people know the answers.

Titan, an experimental submersible
diving to the Titanic

has gone missing,

along with the five men on board.

The world has been fascinated
with the Titanic ever since it sank.

But could the five passengers
of the Titan

be paying the ultimate price
for that fascination?

One hour and 45 minutes
into their descent,

communications with Titan were lost.

The Coast Guard said planes, boats

and, indeed, another mini-submarine
were searching

above and below
the surface of the North Atlantic.

With only 96 hours of oxygen
thought to be on board,

it's a race against time
to find them.

The US Coast Guard says
that oxygen is running out.

And the clock is ticking.

As the whole world holds its breath,

questions start to be asked
about Titan's seaworthiness,

and fingers start to be pointed
at the man behind it.

Stockton Rush absolutely believed

in the integrity
of the Titan submersible.

There are those that have said
it's just a question of if not when

something would go wrong.

Stockton Rush is now trapped
in his submersible,

with oxygen thought to be
running out.

But there's a flicker of belief.

Late on Tuesday,
reports of the Canadian Air Force

hearing banging
deep beneath the waves emerged.

Banging noises were detected

by a Canadian aircraft
searching for the vessel.

A glimmer of hope
in a search operation like no other.

TAPPING

We spoke to the ships.

They were not doing anything
to make those sorts of noises.

The problem is trying to figure out

whether it was from the people
we were looking for,

or whether it was coming from
somewhere else in the ocean.

For experts, hearing the sounds
for the first time

makes it clear
why they became a focus.

TAPPING

Extraordinary.

It's clearly an echo.

Erm, but that distinctive
"boom, boom... boom, boom..."

TAPPING

Sounds definitely like
it could be man-made.

And the fact that you can hear
it either an echo

or a second set of noises.

If that wasn't coming
from the Titan,

what was it coming from?

It's very methodic.

It sounds like banging on metal
or metal breaking apart.

You can't discount it,
you can't discredit it.

So you have to keep that opportunity
of potential hope alive.

TAPPING

When we had identified

some possible banging noises
that appeared to be man-made,

that's when the search
really changed directions.

Bringing industry
and bringing militaries

and bringing countries together

to try and save these people.

Titan has been in the water
for nearly 60 hours.

Specialist teams travelling
from thousands of miles away

are finally arriving
in Saint john's.

On Tuesday night,
it became clear to me

that this was going to be a story
unlike anything

I'd ever covered in my entire life.

I was on my way home,

and I can feel my car shake.

AEROPLANE DRONING

I look up, and there's
an American Globemaster aircraft

landing at the airport.

I immediately drove to the airport
to take in the scene

and see what was going on.

Two more planes come in.

journalists are witnessing
the arrival

of a team of deep sea experts
from New York.

They have reached Newfoundland
with their own submersible,

capable of diving to a depth
of 6,000 metres,

deeper than Titan is thought to be.

We landed in Saint john's

and off-loaded our equipment
on three C-17s,

and there were a lot of media
that were,

you know, watching that unfold.

There's a line-up
of tractor trailers

stretching way beyond the airport.

Ancl they started off-loading
all of this equipment,

all this stuff that's going
to aid in the search.

The equipment moved
from the airport to the ship.

Often,
that's a couple-of-day effort,

and we had to compress
a couple of days into a few hours.

We had almost
a 380 nautical-mile run

from Saint john's to the site
of the missing submarine,

to Titanic.

Ancl that obviously takes time.

It will take Ed andjesse
the best part of a day

to reach the Titan search site.

We just moved as fast as we could,
as safely as we could.

Ancl that was when I realised
that this was going to be

a massive global effort.

We were going to see a search
unlike we had ever seen before.

Later that day,

the US Coast Guard provides
an update.

Their focus is
the unexplained sonar recordings.

Good afternoon.

Yesterday, the Canadian P-3 detected
underwater noises

in the search area.

As a result,
ROV operations were relocated

in an attempt to explore
the origin of the noises.

The data from the P-3 aircraft
has been shared

with our US Navy experts
for further analysis,

which will be considered
in future search plans.

They confirm the banging sounds
were heard late on Tuesday the 20th,

and again on Wednesday
the 21st ofjune.

But the Canadian Air Force say
the sounds were heard even earlier,

from the very beginning
of the search -

information not shared by
the US Coast Guard at the time.

TAPPING

In the afternoon on the 19th,

that's when we had first got
reports of it from the Aurora.

The noise was coming
from great depths,

from the Titanic wreckage area

and where the submersible
was expected to be.

The Canadians are convinced

the sight of the banging
should be a key focus.

And that's where
rescue submersibles are heading.

But the US Coast Guard is still
running a surface search as well,

unwilling to rule anything out.

Good afternoon, everyone.

The surface search is now

approximately two times the size
of Connecticut.

We also have to factor in the
ever-changing weather conditions,

currents and sea states that expand
the search area every hour.

It's like looking
for a needle in a haystack.

Only by luck
are you going to find it.

The haystack is getting bigger

because somebody's throwing
more hay onto it,

but the needle is still
the same size.

It is a race against the clock

to determine the origin
of those sounds

and if indeed they're coming from
the missing submersible.

If the sounds are man-made,

many think they are coming from
the crew on board Titan.

Cos if they're banging,
they must be alive.

Ancl if they're alive,
there's a chance you can save them.

For the families on the support
vessel, the Polar Prince,

obviously the news
of the banging was,

or at least appeared to be,
exactly what they were praying for,

what they were looking for,
what they were hoping for.

If we make it obvious
that it's human,

by making it rhythmic
and then waiting a pause,

then more rhythmic banging.

I just thought that's
the typical sort of thing

that Hamish would've come up with.

I always thought that
if they were snagged

or running out of oxygen
or anything,

he'd be one of these people
coming up with ideas of what to do.

It actually sparks hope.
That's signs of life.

So the worst hasn't happened.

There's a hope here now
that we've just got to find them.

They're there,

trying to make themselves visible
through sound.

So if we can get ROVs
or anything down there,

you're going to be able
to find the craft

and hopefully rescue them in time.

Rescue teams now have a focus.

They're racing
to the source of the banging.

But Titan's estimated oxygen
is running dangerously low,

and the clock is ticking.

We were aware that there were

potentially man-made sounds
being made

by occupants of Titan
that were communicating.

That's important because
we needed to bring our vehicle

to a spot on the seafloor

where we thought Titan might be.

Maybe there's a chance that they can
get to them in time and find them.

Ancl it becomes a total race
against the clock.

Nearly 400 miles
off the coast of Canada,

five men are thought to be trapped
in a deep-sea submersible.

TAPPING

Banging sounds
believed to be a distress call

have offered a glimmer of hope.

But as the clock strikes midnight

on the morning of Thursday
the 22nd ofjune,

the situation is desperate.

If Titan is stuck
at the bottom of the ocean,

oxygen levels are becoming critical.

It's a race against the clock.

Ancl for the people
who are watching the story,

I think the panic
is starting to set in.

The suspense, the tension,

the kind of edge-of-the-seat
feeling of, "Oh, my God,"

you know, "there's impending doom."

We can see doom ticking away.

If the submersible is down there,

the passengers are entering
a fourth day of dangerous conditions

and mental torment.

It's just a horrific thought

of what must be going through
their minds down there,

erm, thinking that, actually,
this is it.

As soon as panic sets in,
you're in an enclosed space.

One of the challenges
is trying to maintain

enough of a state of calm
that you're not overusing oxygen.

Hyperventilation is not
a good thing in that situation.

You can put yourself
in that position

and the claustrophobia of it all
and the fear that you would feel.

The countdown
to zero oxygen remaining

is also the driving force
for the rescue teams,

desperately searching
with less and less time remaining.

The sun is coming up.
It's a new clay of searching.

But the sun rising is an indication
that time is slipping away.

The ticking clock and the fact

that four days of oxygen
became three days,

became two days, became 12 hours,
became six hours.

It brought an urgency to it
which elevated it

far beyond a normal news story.

Finally, deep sea experts
from Pelagic Research

arrive at the Titan dive site.

But oxygen is now down
to just five hours.

Early in the morning of the 22nd,

we got on site,

uh, you know,
right around daybreak.

You know, we certainly knew
the window was closing.

The entire group of responders
that were on scene,

air force pilots,
Canadian Coast Guard folks,

industry folks
from multiples of ships.

I went out to the stern
and looked around.

I'm like, "Oh, yeah,
there's something going on here.

There's a lot of ships here.

You don't usually see that
all in one spot.

Upon arrival on site,

we had about 45 minutes to an hour

to actually get everything set up.

Ed and Jesse's submersible,
Odysseus,

is one of only a few in the world

that can reach
the depths of the Titanic.

We're expert in this area.

This is what we do.

I mean, there's no question that
everybody was on adrenaline.

Everybody was working tirelessly.

I was very much sleep-deprived

and running on adrenaline.

I got up with the guys
who were there

in order to get the vehicle
launched the first time

and into the water.

At 4:09am, Odysseus is in the water.

But there's still a long way to go.

Of course, we're focussed
on getting to seafloor.

That focus was something
that drove us

to actually descend faster
than we'd normally descend.

We'd normally descend
at 25 metres a minute.

We were descending
at 35 metres a minute.

We had to get there
as fast as possible

because there were people in trouble

and their oxygen resources
were limited, and we knew that.

We were always thinking about them.

I mean, inherently,
in every breath that we took,

it was thinking of those breaths.

It will take Odysseus two hours

to dive the 3,800 metres
to the sea bed.

All the while, Titan's oxygen supply
slowly dwindles.

An hour into the rescue attempt,
Odysseus has reached 2,000 metres.

Thirty minutes later,
it passes 3,000 metres.

Finally, at 6:15am,
Odysseus is on the seafloor.

Titan's oxygen supply is now down
to less than two hours.

And then...

disaster.

We actually ran into an issue.

We started moving,

and some of our thrusters
stopped working.

Ancl this is the toughest radio call

I think I've probably ever made,

which was,
"Guys, we have a vehicle issue.

"We're not going to be effective."

After coming so far,

Ed and his team seemed to have
fallen at the final hurdle

and begin to resurface.

For the crew on board Titan,

their would-be rescuers
are now not coming.

But then an hour later...

...hope.

Then my team started
to recover the vehicle

at a couple of a hundred metres
off the seafloor.

They turned the system off
and turned it back on,

and we regained full functionality.

We're back in business.
We're heading to seafloor.

But the delay has eaten into
the remaining time.

And almost as soon as Odysseus
reaches the seafloor again

and restarts its search...

I remember I was on the radio,
um, NPR, that morning,

just after 8am Eastern Time.

MAN: Ryan, we've been on this story
since Monday.

How much oxygen could be left there?

It could be gone. It could be gone.

Based on the estimates
that were given to us on Tuesday

by the American Coast Guard,

it would have expired
about ten minutes ago.

That moment was kind of, you know,
you could feel it in your chest.

The moment estimated oxygen ran out

could be the tragic end
of this story.

But for many, until Titan is found,

they will hold on
to a sense of hope, however small.

Do you want to know?

Do you want to know
that it's looking really bad?

Probably not.

Because you're still clinging
to that hope,

that hope that your loved ones
are still alive,

can still be brought up safely.

There was still people hoping,
putting forward explanations

of why they might still be able
to survive beyond then.

I think people probably
didn't want to say the unthinkable,

but they would still
have been hoping

until hope ran out.

You start to think, well,
people like Hamish

would immediately be thinking,
"Well, we need to preserve oxygen,

"so let's breathe slower,
let's try and calm everything down."

We started hearing from
some experts about how

if the water was cold,
and it would be at that depth,

you know, they likely would have
gone into hypothermia,

which would help them
preserve the oxygen, breathe less.

Maybe there's still a chance.

You know, you spoke to experts
who said,

"Well, maybe this could happen,

"and maybe the oxygen could last
a little bit longer.

"And maybe that was a sound
that we heard,

"and maybe we can find them.

"And maybe they will, you know,

"somehow manage to get back
to the surface."

Because until all hope is gone,
there's always a tiny slice of it.

And so the search continues.

There was potential hope.

So we made the decision
to keep searching.

You can't look at one stop
as the end of the game.

It's the confidence
that you'll find a way.

What we were all hoping for
was a chance at rescuing the crew.

But what will they find?

Everyone's kind of holding
their breath at that point

for what's going to come next.

After four frantic days
of searching,

hope is fading fast that the Titan
submersible crew will be saved.

They went missing 96 hours ago,

and it's thought oxygen on board
has just run out.

But no-one is giving up yet.

We decided that
in consultation with Ocean Gate,

we'd keep looking.

We're going to find them,

and then we're going to need
to recover them to the surface.

Ed and his team have sent
deep-sea submersible Odysseus

nearly 4,000 metres down
to locate Titan.

We created a direction to steer...

...in the line that pointed us
over to their last known position.

We were still moving as fast
as we possibly could.

Was it motivating? Of course.

But we were already motivated
in a sense.

Ancl that motivation
really never stopped.

Until... You know, until,
unfortunately, we found debris.

At 8:17am,

Odysseus makes a shocking discovery.

We were finding small debris.

You're looking around
and finding things

that shouldn't just be sitting
on the seafloor, and you're like,

"This is kind of suspect,
and this is kind of suspect,

"and this is kind of suspect.

It seemed apparent and obvious

that we were on a piece of debris.

It was traumatic, of course.

Ancl I think the magnitude
of what we were encountering

was obviously real and apparent.

But then the discussion became,
"OK, well, I mean... what now?"

Soon after,
the announcement is made

that debris has been found.

But it's not clear
if it's from Titan.

11:48am, the US Coast Guard declared

that they had found a wreckage field
close to the Titanic.

Ancl so, at that point,

they're not giving
any more information than that.

The Coast Guard
isn't releasing details,

but speculation is rife.

Debris has been found on the sea bed

close to the wreckage
of the Titanic.

The discovery was made
by a remotely operated vehicle

within the search zone.

REPORTER: For the five families,

the coming hours could confirm
their worst fears.

I think we were all preparing
for the inevitable at that point.

A debris field didn't point
to anything good.

There's no way you're going to have
bits of debris

unless something terrible
has happened,

something terrible and violent
has happened.

Any form of debris being found...

You don't get a small,
erm, problem with a submersible.

It's going to be a big problem.

When the debris was found, that...

You know, the answer...

We kind of... You kind of knew
that, uh, it wasn't good.

There has been an update,

some breaking news,
in the last couple of hours.

It's a developing story
about that debris

found on the ocean floor.

I remember being told in my ear

that, you know,
we've had confirmation that,

er, there's going to be
a press conference.

We're going to remain on air
tonight for a press conference

from the US Coast Guard.

This morning, an ROV,
or remote-operated vehicle,

from the vessel Horizon Arctic

discovered the tail cone
of the Titan submersible,

approximately 1,600 feet
from the bow of the Titanic

on the sea floor.

It's the end
that you feared would happen,

that you sort of knew would happen,
but there is nothing

that prepares you for
that actual moment when you say,

"Those five people on board,

"they are sadly no longer with us."

This is a...
incredibly unforgiving environment

down there on the seafloor,

and the debris is consistent
with a catastrophic, uh, implosion.

The pressure at nearly 4,000 metres

proved too much
for the Titan to withstand.

If you have a flaw, it'll find it.

The pressure will find that flaw.

If there is a catastrophic failure,

it can cause the entire structure
to collapse.

Everyone on board is dead.

I offer my deepest condolences
to the families.

I can only imagine
what this has been like for them.

Ancl I hope that this discovery

provides some solace
during this difficult time.

The first thoughts was just
sadness for the loss of lives.

In particular, for my friend Hamish.

Feeling of sorrow
for his wife and children.

Dik Barton is on live television
when the news breaks.

This is, ah, you know,
desperately sad news

to all the people around the world

praying that this wasn't
going to be the result

of this incredibly gripping
and absolutely harrowing story.

No. Ancl they always prepared
for that discovery. Erm...

She told me he was dead
on live national TV.

When you're asked,
"So, how does it feel

"to lose a very good friend?"

on national television, live...

...that was quite sobering.

You're telling a man
that a friend of his is dead.

That's not broadcasting, is it?
That's...

That's probably one of the most
kind of intimate conversations

you could ever have
with a human being.

So you're not putting on
any kind of performance.

You're actually doing it.

Christine Dawood,

the wife of Shahzada
and mother of Suleman,

gives a harrowing interview
about her loss.

I think I lost hope...

...when we passed the 96 hours mark.

That's when I lost hope.

Ancl that's when...
when I, even then,

I sent a message to my family
on shore.

I said,
"I am preparing for the worst."

But I miss them.

I really, really miss them.

Yeah.

I actually knew Stockton Rush.

It wasn't just a bunch of strangers.

It was like, "Holy crap,
I shook his hand."

It was a gut punch.

It was a visceral punch.

The mission has changed

from rescue to recovery.

Teams remain at the site
for another four days,

working around the clock to bring
what's left of Titan to the surface.

We continued our effort
to map the debris field.

We operated 24 hours a clay.

We made another six dives,
which included

the recovery of items
that were identified.

On the 28th ofjune,

Ed and his team return to shore
aboard the Horizon Arctic.

The boat comes in,

off-loads the last pieces of Titan
that they were able to find.

You've got the nose cone,
the titanium nose cone,

that's still perfectly intact.

Ancl then strands
of the carbon fibre hull

that are still held together.

It was also really surprising
to see how intact pieces were.

You could very clearly see
the porthole.

The glass was no longer in it.

It's unmistakeable. It's Titan.

These phantom pieces of Titan

that they're going to try
and piece back together

to figure out what went wrong.

So, what caused this tragedy?

And when did Titan implode?

After the news was confirmed,

details of a strange noise
the US Navy detected

on Sunday 18th June are revealed.

It was reported that the Navy
had heard a noise

which was similar to an implosion
or explosion.

That information came out
many clays later.

Ancl we now know -
in fact, it is certain -

the Americans were able to detect
the implosion of Titan

as it went down to the Titanic.

Now, for some reason, erm,
they didn't choose to reveal that

until it was known that nobody
had survived on Titan.

Everybody wanted them
to be found and survive.

But the reality was something
totally different,

that an implosion had happened

and all the five passengers on board
had perished.

The US Navy couldn't be
completely sure what it had heard,

but the suspected sound
of an implosion

was detected around the time
Titan lost communications.

In a strange way, I was actually
a little bit relieved.

It meant that this
will have happened very quickly,

on the descent.

It meant that there wasn't
days and days

of psychological torment
for these people

as they slowly asphyxiated or...
or worse.

In a way, it's kind of a relief

that, you know, there wouldn't have
been any suffering.

It would have been instantaneous
for the poor souls in there.

If Titan imploded
so soon after starting its dive,

what were the banging noises
that had offered so much hope?

TAPPING

Titanic is this huge wreck.

It's decayed,
it's been there 100 years.

There's all sorts of metal
banging around.

It could have been a ship
in the area.

It could have been anything.

What you do during a rescue
is you bang

and you follow a set process
so people know

that it's a submarine
that's in distress or on the bottom.

But the reality is that
that didn't happen.

As the truth about Titan's fate
begins to surface,

questions start to be asked
about who is to blame.

And was it an accident
waiting to happen?

Everybody in that vessel
got in there on their own volition.

In whatever guise
and whatever level of understanding,

they all knew the risks.

But something happened

which could have been avoided.

All sorts of things
started to come out.

Fingers started to be pointed.

So the narrative
had already changed

from one of hope and one of search

to one of search for the guilty.

NARRATOR: Five men are dead.

They perished
in a catastrophic implosion

on board a deep sea submersible

while descending
to the wreck of the Titanic

in the North Atlantic Ocean.

Now the world
and four grieving families

want to know why.

Questions started to swirl
at that point

about the safety
of this whole mission.

What went wrong,
why did it go wrong,

and what were the warning signs?

There are a variety of questions
that OceanGate need to answer,

and they need to answer it
not just for the families,

but they also need to answer it
for the rescue services

that were involved in it.

The man with the answers
is tragically among the dead -

Stockton Rush.

Stockton Rush died in this tragedy,

and he was the CEO of OceanGate

and therefore holds
ultimate accountability

for his own decisions

and also responsibility
for his team's input

and team's decisions.

His accountability is marked
by the fact

that he's died by his own craft.

The tragedy is that he took
a whole load of people with him.

Stockton Rush was born
into a wealthy family,

the descendant of two signatories

of the United States
Declaration of Independence.

He worked as a flight test engineer
before founding OceanGate in 2009.

I knew Stockton really well.

A lot of people
had serious concerns

as it became more obvious
what OceanGate was planning.

He is cool, he is friendly,

but you don't know
what he is thinking at the moment.

He's a really cool businessman.

He seemed, to me,

an all right guy, bit of a maverick.

Rush had an obsession
with the Titanic

and with taking paying tourists
to see it.

His family...

Because a great-great-grandma
and grandpa from his wife

died at the Titanic.

I think it was both.
It was business and it was passion.

He had a true and honest passion
for ocean exploration.

He really was trying
to explore different ways

of making the ways to get underwater
more democratic,

to bring it to more people.

He was very passionate about that.

But persistent rumours
of cut corners

in the design and build
of the Titan sub

dogged Rush's reputation
and ambitions,

and questions
in the submersible world

started to be asked.

The choice of materials
for constructing Titan, I think,

were probably at best
adventurous and optimistic.

He had two titanium end caps
and a compound fibre tube.

Erm, to put those two together,
it would be hard to bind them,

to bond them properly.

I never believed in that technology
of wound carbon fibre.

I thought it was a horrible idea.

Erm... I wish I'd spoken up.

it just sounded bad.

Pressure vessels for human
occupancy is serious business.

A million and one ways
for something to go wrong.

The appearance is he did it
to save money,

he did it to save time,

and he did it
because he thought he could.

We'd also been shown the insides.

It turns out that everybody
was sitting on the floor, kind of.

Doesn't seem terribly comfortable
for the length of the dive, but OK.

|t turns out that that matting that
you were sitting on was flammable.

The lighting within it

was something that you would get
from, urn, a DIY store.

Ancl sometimes risks are acceptable.

I think where
this becomes controversial

is when you're taking
paying customers.

Some potential customers
were so put off

by Stockton Rush's approach,
they had a change of heart.

I was signed up to go down
to the Titanic with OceanGate.

And in November 2018, I thought,
"I've had enough of this,"

and I pulled out,
asked for a refund.

But Stockton Rush seemed proud,

even bragging to his other clients,

as seen in this revealing
YouTube video.

You know,
I've broken some rules to make this.

I think I've broken them with logic
and good engineering behind me.

The carbon fibre and titanium -
there's a rule you don't do that.

Well, I did. It's picking the rules
that you break

that are the ones
that will add value to others

and add value to society.

Ancl that, really,
to me is about innovation.

I think there may have been

a certain amount of ego
involved in this,

a certain amount of belief that
he was there to change things,

and that any criticism
that was put to him

was an attack on his,
erm, creativity,

his intellect, his...

er... integrity, potentially.

But ego is not a bad thing.
It's a great driver.

But it also can be a killer.

As well as using questionable
materials to build Titan,

Rush, crucially, didn't have its
design reviewed by industry experts,

despite a stark warning.

In 2018, my idea was,
what if we draft a letter?

That letter was meant to say,

"Look, you're part
of the brotherhood.

"|t looks like you're going rogue.

"We're worried, and we're
all telling you, be careful,

"because the risks here
are very high,

"and it could be from benign
to catastrophic."

Yes, I signed the letter.

We were worried
about a Hindenburg event.

So, Stockton pretty well called me
right away and said,

"Hey, Will, what is this?"

Ancl I said, "Well, we mean it.
We have some serious concerns."

So to that, Stockton said,
"Well, I'm way ahead of you guys.

"This is innovation.
We gotta break the rules.

"That's what I'm doing,
and you guys are too slow,

"too late, too far behind,
too expensive.

"|t takes too long.
We'll never make progress.

"And I'm here to open the ocean
to the entire world."

We left a phone call
on agreeing to disagree.

Well, he was fairly upset
at that point.

When you look back
at that letter that they wrote,

it's kind of chilling
to see the warnings

that they put on paper

before any of this happened.

My view is that it was hubris
and arrogance.

So, he was a ground breaker.

There's no doubt about that.

But he thought that he was, erm...

the god in this position,

that he could create something,
be innovative, be clever.

That's a great thing to be doing.

But you have to listen to the
greater community and other experts.

If you do not do it right,
people will die.

You just don't get chances
when you go that deep.

The ocean'll kill you.

OceanGate has ceased operations.

Its website is now merely
a black screen.

Multiple investigations have begun

to determine exactly
what happened to Titan,

the submersible that met
an eerily similar fate

to the ship it was looking for.

It has similarities to the fate
of the Titanic itself.

Unheeded warnings.

Edward Smith,
the captain of the Titanic,

warned about the ice that lay ahead.

Stockton Rush, the CEO of OceanGate,
had been warned

five years before
the tragedy happened.

We all know what happened
to the Titanic back in 1912,

and I think probably there was
that same spirit of exploration

and that same spirit of,

"There are no boundaries
that we cannot cross,"

to those who were involved
in the Titan sub.

Sadly, they both ended
with the loss of life.

It's almost like a piece
of folklore already.

Lives were lost. Real people.

Families, friends, loved ones

will be affected
for the rest of their lives.

It's a terrible tragedy.

I guess what makes it
even more upsetting

is that perhaps
it could have been avoided.