A wild story has come out of the brand new Netflix documentary Titan: The OceanGate Submersible Catastrophe, by which the corporate’s late CEO had apparently expressed a want to have Pearl Jam on board the underwater craft that imploded on an expedition to view the Titanic wreckage.
The Titan submersible infamously imploded in June 2023, killing OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush and 4 different passengers, making headlines worldwide.
Within the Netflix doc, which was launched Wednesday (June 11), Joseph Assi, a videographer named who was employed by Rush, says that the CEO was seeking to put the highlight on his fledgling firm, as reported by Loudwire.
“They wanted extra publicity, that’s why we got here alongside,” explains Assi. “The sub they have been making was very primary, so the concept was – ‘Make us movies so we are able to be a focus for folks.’”
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He continues, “They’d wild concepts, like they wish to take Pearl Jam within the submarine, or he talked about some floating metropolis that would additionally submerge.”
Fortunately, Pearl Jam by no means made it wherever close to the Titan submersible, and Eddie Vedder and firm are all alive and nicely. The band lately accomplished a spring tour, whereas Vedder will headline his personal Ohana Festival together with Inexperienced Day and Hozier in Dana Level, California, going down September Twenty sixth-Twenty eighth.
Apparently the Oceangate guy had big Pearl Jam dreams.
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