Titan: The OceanGate Disaster OTT Release Date - When and where to watch docu on failed expedition of Titanic

Time of India

25-05-2025

Titan: The OceanGate Disaster OTT Release Date - In June 2023, five people boarded a deep-sea submersible called Titan, hoping to see the Titanic wreck in person, and they never came back. What was supposed to be the adventure of a lifetime - a $250,000 ticket to the ocean's most famous graveyard - ended in a catastrophic implosion, miles below the surface.
In under two hours, the Titan vanished. In four days, it became the most talked-about mystery in the world. Now, Netflix brings the full story to the surface in its chilling new documentary Titan: The OceanGate Disaster, which drops on June 11.
What is Titan: The OceanGate Disaster all about?
You've heard the headlines. Now hear what they left out. Directed by Oscar-winning documentarian Mark Monroe, this film dives into OceanGate's secretive world, a private company led by Stockton Rush, who styled himself as the Elon Musk of the deep. The documentary pulls together internal emails, unseen footage, and interviews with whistleblowers who warned, long before the disaster, that Titan was a ticking time bomb.
Titan wasn't like other deep-sea subs. Traditional ones use titanium. Titan used carbon fibre, a move Rush defended as 'disruptive innovation.' Engineers told him it was reckless, and he ignored them. The film lays bare how OceanGate bent and sometimes broke the rules of deep-sea travel. Safety tests were skipped, and all concerns were silenced. All in pursuit of becoming the first company to commercialise extreme ocean tourism.
Former employees, submarine experts, and even passengers who backed out of earlier trips share stories that feel like warnings from a horror movie. One engineer said riding Titan was like "getting inside a bomb made of Play-Doh." The problem? No one wanted to listen until it was too late.
Who was inside, and what happened eventually?
On board were five men: OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, British billionaire Hamish Harding, Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his 19-year-old son Suleman, and French Titanic expert Paul-Henri Nargeolet. Each believed they were part of something historic. Instead, their journey became a global cautionary tale.
One hour and 45 minutes into the descent, Titan lost contact with its mother ship. Search teams raced against time and oxygen in a four-day media storm. But hope faded fast. Eventually, the U.S. Navy confirmed what experts feared: the sub had imploded almost instantly under pressure, the equivalent of 6,000 elephants stomping on a soda can. Everything that made Titan "innovative" turned out to be exactly what made it deadly.
OceanGate shut down operations shortly after. Lawsuits, investigations, and public outrage followed. The documentary shows how a company that sold 'cutting-edge adventure' collapsed under the weight of its own negligence.