some claimed the footage was digitally altered, arguing that a close analysis shows the kayaker was added in post-production. Slowing down the video, skeptics pointed out how the kayak seems to disappear completely in one frame before reappearing....
And right there, in microcosm, is the debate I’ve had with myself for the past year. Stockton Rush, who died in the implosion, was OceanGate’s CEO and theTitan’s designer. Was he a bold innovator, the Elon Musk of submersibles, advancing 50-year-old ideas with modern technologies?