Netflix has been widely condemned after it shared a trailer for its new film, The Deepest Breath, in the wake of a desperate search for a missing submarine in the Atlantic Ocean.
The OceanGate Expeditions vessel went missing on Sunday night (June 18) with five passengers on board who had paid a fortune to embark on a trip to view the wreckage of the Titanic some 12,500 feet below the surface.
On Monday (June 19) the streaming giant took to Twitter to advertise the movie — a heartbreaking true story of freediving champion Alessia Zecchini and her coach and safety expert Stephen Keenan, documenting the rewards and risks of chasing a dream through ocean depths.
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Through archival footage and interviews the film focuses on the pair who were “destined for one another despite the different paths they took to meet at the pinnacle of the freediving world.”
Accompanying their trailer, meanwhile, Netflix wrote the caption: “Between life and death is one single breath. The Deepest Breath, an A24 production, only on Netflix 19 July.”
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Angry followers soon flooded the replies, with one commenting: “Not sure this is the best show to advertise during the titanic submarine thing…”
Another sarcastically declared: “You’ve got great timing I’ll give you that.”
A third added: “Wow epic timing, and not in a good way. Who decided this was going up?”
And a fourth said: “Read the room.”
Earlier on Tuesday a leading technology expert said that the vessel should not have disappeared.
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Spokesperson for the British Titanic Society, Martin Blyth-Sweetingham said: “This submersible is obviously equipped with state-of-the-art technology.
“It has a carbon fibre and titanium hull with a real-time hull health monitoring system which basically gives the submersible pilot the details about the changing pressure and how it’s impacting the vessel.
“And normally what will happen is if there was an issue there the early warning detector would notify the pilot and they would have to make a decision to descend back to the surface and normally they would safely return.
“Unfortunately, on this occasion, where we would normally get a satellite signal every 15 minutes the last signal received by satellite was one hour and 45 minutes into Sunday’s dive.
“Obviously there’s been no satellite received since then [and so] this huge rescue mission is now under way.”
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