A film project on the implosion of the tourist submersible Titan

Less than four months after the implosion of the Titan submersible, which cost the lives of five people, the American production company MindRiot plans to make a film, according to information from Deadline relayed by BFMTV.

The tragedy is already the subject of a documentary series project which should be entitled Salvaged (“recovered”) also produced by MindRiot, recalls the American specialist site. For the feature film, which has the same title as the documentary, the production company is teaming up with E. Brian Dobbins, producer behind the hit comedy series Black-ish.

Still according to Deadline, the film will tackle different periods of the drama: before, during and after. “Our film will not only honor all those involved in the submarine tragedy and their families, but also serve to address the troubling issue of the nature of media today,” said Jonathan Keasey, co-writer of the project. with Justin MacGregor, to our American colleagues.

The Titan, a tourist submersible from the Oceangate company approximately 6.5 meters long, dived on June 18 to explore the wreck of the Titanic. Planning to resurface seven hours later, contact was lost less than two hours after his departure. A few days later, the American Coast Guard announced the deaths of the five passengers on board. Several pieces of debris were found on the seabed some 500 meters from the Titanic and at a depth of almost 4,000 meters in the Atlantic Ocean.

Two investigations were opened to determine the causes of its implosion, carried out jointly by Canada and the United States, involved in the rescue operations of the five occupants. The Frenchman Paul-Henri Nargeolet, the Briton Hamish Harding, the Pakistani-British Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman as well as the American Stockton Rush, all perished in the disaster.