After watching Netflix’s new documentary, Titan: The OceanGate Disaster, viewers should turn their attention to another similar documentary released on Max just one week before. On June 18, 2023, OceanGate, a tourism and expeditions company, organized an expedition to have a submarine visit the wreck of the Titanic, which infamously struck an iceberg and sank into the Atlantic Ocean in 1912. The submarine, called the Titan, had previously completed 87 expeditions, but its 88th dive ended in tragedy, when, just over one hour into the expedition, the submarine imploded near the Titanic wreck, killing all five passengers on board.

Released almost two years after the tragedy, the Netflix documentary was directed and produced by Mark Monroe, and explores the backstory of OceanGate and the events leading up to the fatal expedition. Through interviews with former OceanGate employees and whistleblowers, the documentary also provides insight into Stockton Rush’s future plans for Titan and the mistakes made by OceanGate which eventually led to the 2023 disaster. Titan: The OceanGate Disaster offers a powerful insight into the harrowing events and those who enjoyed watching the Netflix show should watch a similar Max documentary that also covers the tragedy.

Max Released A Documentary About OceanGate’s Titan Disaster A Few Weeks Before Netflix

Implosion: The Titanic Sub Disaster Was Released On May 28, 2025

On May 28, Max released the documentary, Implosion: The Titanic Sub Disaster, two weeks before the release of Titan: The OceanGate Disaster on Netflix. Directed by Pamela Gordon, Implosion: The Titanic Sub Disaster explores the events that led to OceanGate organizing the fateful expedition, how the Titan’s communication loss with the MV Polar Prince one hour into the exploration of the Titanic’s wreck led to a four-day search for the submarine, and the eventual discovery of the imploded submarine at the bottom of the ocean. Like Netflix’s documentary, Max’s Implosion includes interviews with former OceanGate employees who offer valuable insight.

Similar to the Netflix documentary, Max’s Implosion: The Titanic Sub Disaster offers insight into how OceanGate’s Titan submarine imploded, and how, in the years prior to the tragic dive, OceanGate invested $18.1 million to expand the company’s business and potentially launch new underwater tours to visit the wreck of the Titanic (via GeekWire). The Max documentary also includes interviews with whistleblowers and former OceanGate employees who provide insight into the flawed preparations for the Titan expedition and the warning signs that were ignored by Stockton Rush and OceanGate that could have prevented the implosion.

Upon its release on Max, Implosion: The Titanic Sub Disaster received a positive reception from critics, who praised the documentary for providing a new insight into the mistakes made by OceanGate that led to the Titan‘s implosion (via The Guardian). It was also praised for exploring the reasons behind the implosion and including interviews with relatives of the five victims of the tragedy. Max’s Implosion: The Titanic Sub Disaster has been positively compared to Netflix’s Titan: The OceanGate Disaster and both have been praised for their documentation of the tragic events.

Discovery’s OceanGate Documentary On Max Focuses On Different Aspects Of The Titan Implosion

It Offers A Day-By-Day Reconstruction Of The Tragic Expedition

The Netflix and Max documentaries offer different perspectives on the events of the 2023 Titan implosion. The Max documentary provides a day-by-day view of the day of the Titan‘s fatal expedition on June 18, 2023, and contains chilling sound footage of the submarine’s implosion on the surface floor (via BBC). Implosion: The Titanic Sub Disaster also contains a heartbreaking interview with Christine Dawood, who lost her husband and son, Shahzada and Suleman, in the tragedy. Dawood provides her opinion of the flawed expedition, stating how the submarine sinking near Titanic was a sign of “history[repeating] itself” (via TV Insider).

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Meanwhile, Netflix’s Titan: The OceanGate Disaster explores how the ignored safety warnings about the submarine’s structure had a large impact on not only the five victims, but those who attempted to express their concerns to the company. In the documentary, former Director of Marine Operations, David Lochridge, reveals how he was fired from OceanGate and later sued by the company for filing a complaint about its safety (via MovieDelic). While both the Netflix and Max documentaries offer different aspects, they both provide harrowing insight into the 2023 Titan submarine implosion.

Sources: GeekWire, The Guardian, BBC, TV Insider, MovieDelic