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Fox News
5 days ago
- Fox News
'Larger than life' shipwreck explorer dies during deep-sea diving expedition
A dive boat captain and shipwreck explorer died last week during a deep-sea diving expedition off the coast of Massachusetts, his dive company said Friday. Joe Mazraani, 48, was diving about 200 miles offshore on the eastern edge of Georges Bank to explore a shipwreck his team called the Big Engine Steamer when he died on July 29, Atlantic Wreck Salvage said in a statement on Facebook. There was no reason to suspect diver error or equipment failure, the company said, noting that all indications pointed to a medical emergency. The company said a full investigation into Mazraani's death was ongoing. "Joe Mazraani was larger than life," his wife and business partner, Jennifer Sellitti, wrote. "He was kind, compassionate, and generous. A mentor and a student, a friend, brother, son, and partner. Whether motoring aboard D/V Tenacious, diving into deep and dangerous water, or defending his clients in court, Joe demanded the best of everyone around him. Sometimes he demanded it grumpily—but he always demanded by example." Sellitti, a prominent public defender in New Jersey, also co-owned Atlantic Wreck Salvage with Mazraani, who was also a criminal defense attorney. "I loved Joe fiercely, and he loved me back just the same," Sellitti wrote. "We were partners in everything—especially this." Mazraani was born in Lebanon and immigrated to the U.S. at 15 years old, according to his company's website. He became a certified diver in the mid-1990s, "diving sunken wrecks off the Northeast U.S. coast and instantly developed an obsession with exploring the sunken hulks that litter the approaches to New York Harbor," his bio reads. He also led diving expeditions to the Italian liner SS Andrea Doria, and has dived the wrecks of HMHS Britannic – sister ship of the Titanic – and RMS Lusitania, according to the website. As a defense attorney, Mazraani helped free Timothy Puskas in 2024 after Puskas had been wrongfully convicted of murder in the death of 22-year-old former Rutgers student William McCaw. Puskas had served 10 years of a 40-year sentence when Mazraani secured his exoneration. The New Jersey Office of the Public Defender posted a statement online in remembrance of Mazraani. "Joe was larger than life: fearless, kind, and deeply committed to justice," the statement said. "Our hearts are with the Public Defender and his loved ones."
Boston Globe
25-07-2025
- Politics
- Boston Globe
Today in History: Tuskegee Syphilis Study exposed
In 1946, the United States detonated an atomic bomb near Bikini Atoll in the Pacific in the first underwater test of the device. In 1956, the Italian liner SS Andrea Doria collided with the Swedish passenger ship Stockholm off the New England coast late at night and began sinking; 51 people — 46 from the Andrea Doria, five from the Stockholm — were killed. In 1960, a Woolworth's store in Greensboro, North Carolina, that had been the scene of nearly six months of sit-in protests against its whites-only lunch counter dropped its segregation policy. In 1972, the notorious Tuskegee syphilis experiment came to light as The Associated Press reported that for the previous four decades, the US Public Health Service, in conjunction with the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, had been allowing poor, rural Black male patients with syphilis to go without treatment, even allowing more than 100 of them to die, as a way of studying the disease. Advertisement In 1978, Louise Joy Brown, the first 'test tube baby,' was born in Oldham, England; she'd been conceived through the technique of in vitro fertilization. In 1994, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Jordan's King Hussein signed a declaration at the White House ending their countries' 46-year-old formal state of war. Advertisement In 2000, a New York-bound Air France Concorde crashed outside Paris shortly after takeoff, killing all 109 people on board and four people on the ground; it was the first-ever crash of the supersonic jet. In 2010, the online whistleblower Wikileaks posted some 90,000 leaked US military records that amounted to a blow-by-blow account of the Afghanistan war, including unreported incidents of Afghan civilian killings as well as covert operations against Taliban figures. In 2019, President Trump had a second phone call with the new Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, during which he solicited Zelenskyy's help in gathering potentially damaging information about former Vice President Joe Biden; that night, a staff member at the White House Office of Management and Budget signed a document that officially put military aid for Ukraine on hold. In 2022, on a visit to Canada, Pope Francis issued a historic apology for the Catholic Church's cooperation with the country's 'catastrophic' policy of Indigenous residential schools, saying the forced assimilation of Native peoples into Christian society destroyed their cultures, severed families, and marginalized generations. Today's Birthdays: Folk-pop singer-musician Bruce Woodley is 83. Rock musician Jim McCarty is 82. Reggae singer Rita Marley is 79. Musician Verdine White is 74. Model-actor Iman is 70. Rock musician Thurston Moore is 67. Celebrity chef/TV personality Geoffrey Zakarian is 66. Actor Matt LeBlanc is 58. Actor Wendy Raquel Robinson is 58. Actor David Denman is 52. Actor Jay R. Ferguson is 51. Actor James Lafferty is 40. Actor Meg Donnelly is 25.
Daily Record
18-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Record
Netflix Titan viewers horrified over OceanGate CEO chilling remark minutes before sub implosion
Netflix viewers have been left 'freaking out' about a documentary about the fatal Titan submarine implosion in 2023 Netflix fans have been left disturbed by a scene in the documentary about the fatal Titan submarine sinking. The new documentary, titled Titan: The OceanGate Submersible Disaster, tells the story of the lead up of events to the deadly implosion deep underwater while five people were on board on June 18, 2023. Since the film dropped on the streaming platform earlier this month, the OceanGate expedition documentary has become its most-streamed title. Many Netflix viewers are tuning in to discover more about what led to the fatal implosion of the sub which has been on its way to see the wreckage of the Titanic, two years ago today (Wednesday, June 18). Much of the conversation in the documentary is centred on Stockton Rush, the OceanGate CEO who led the creation of the deadly submarine. In one crucial scene, Rush is shown firing OceanGate's former director of marine operations, Scot David Lochridge, after he raised worries about the vessel's carbon fibre hull. However, another eyebrow raising moment occurs even earlier on in the film. Just mere minutes in, video footage shows the passengers boarding the submarine, with Rush brushing off any worries about its safety. He said: 'There's really nothing that happens that requires an immediate response. OK, so if you hear a alarm, don't worry about it. The best thing you can do is don't do anything.' Viewers highlighted this footage as one of the documentary's most eerie moments. One wrote: 'The OceanGate documentary on Netflix starts out from the viewpoint as you're slowly being sealed inside the Titan as Stockton Rush is saying 'don't worry about any alarms. Horrifying..' Another chimed in: 'I'm only five minutes into Titan: The OceanGate Disaster documentary on Netflix and I'm already freaked out. 'If the alarm sounds, do nothing' wtf?' The documentary also revealed how Rush had went forward with the expedition despite the fact he never received any third party classification for it to go ahead. Lochridge previously knocked heads with Rush when he previously steered the sub into a dangerous position during a trip to the SS Andrea Doria wreckage on a tip which took place ahead of the Titan tour. At one stage in the film, Rush can be heard chillingly stating: 'I have no desire to die and I'm not going to die. What may easily happen is we will fail [but] I am not dying. No one's dying under my watch. Period.' When the news first broke that the tourist expedition to view the wreck of the Titanic had disappeared off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada, the story quickly spiralled into a media frenzy. After a four day search, it was confirmed that the Titan had suffered a 'catastrophic explosion' around the time communications ceased. The onboard victims included Rush, 61, British-Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood, 48, and his son and University of Strathclyde student, Suleman, 19. British adventurer Hamish Harding, 58, was also a passenger as well as French deep sea explorer Paul-Henri Nargeolet, 77, who'd been on Titan's maiden voyage in July 2021.
