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Implosion: The Titanic Sub Disaster review – the enraging tale of how five people died in an underwater deathtrap
This documentary on how a wealthy man charged six-figure sums to take four people to the bottom of the sea in an unsafe submarine is frustratingly light on answers to the ultimate question: why did their deaths happen?“What was that bang?” Implosion, BBC2’s documentary about the doomed commercial submarine Titan and its owner and pilot Stockton Rush, has footage shot on 18 June 2023 at the very instant when, on a sightseeing trip 3,800m below the surface of the Atlantic, Titan suffered a fatal rupture and the five people inside it died. There were no cameras on the sea floor and any pictures taken by Titan’s occupants were destroyed along with it, but there is film that contains what we now know to be audio of the craft’s last moment. Rush’s wife, Wendy, is aboard the mission’s support ship, in radio contact, when she hears a noise.At that point, Wendy Rush looks more confused than alarmed. A contributor to the film likens the sound to a door slamming, but it’s less dramatic than th...
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