James Cameron: Titan Sub Implosion Eerily Similar to Titanic Disaster, ‘Warnings Went Unheeded’ (VIDEO)
Academy Award winning director James Cameron, whose 1997 Oscar-winner Titanic chronicled the ill-fated ocean liner’s last hours, has weighed in on the eerie similarities between the Titanic and the Titan tourist sub, noting that both tragedies involved warnings that went “unheeded.”
After frantically searching for several days, the U.S. Coast Guard announced on Thursday that debris discovered near the Titanic wreckage belonged to the missing OceanGate Titan submersible, which was carrying five passengers on an expedition to view the sunken ocean liner. . .
James Cameron, who himself has made over 33 dives to the Titanic and who helped to create the Deepsea Challenger submersible that famously dove to the bottom of the Mariana Trench in 2012, told ABC News that members of the deep submergence engineering community were “very concerned” about the OceanGate Titan’s competency to dive to such incredible depths.
“Many people in the community were very concerned about this sub,” Cameron said. “A number of the top players in the deep submergence engineering community even wrote letters to the company, saying that what they were doing was too experimental to carry passengers and that it needed to be certified and so on.”
“I’m struck by the similarity of the Titanic disaster itself, where the captain was repeatedly warned about ice ahead of his ship and yet he steamed at full speed into an ice field on a moonless night and many people died as a result,” Cameron noted.
‘Titanic’ director James Cameron on the ‘catastrophic implosion’ of Titan submersible: “I’m struck by the similarity of the Titanic disaster itself, where the captain was repeatedly warned about ice ahead of his ship and yet he steamed at full speed into an ice field." pic.twitter.com/vO8JkCXS5f
— ABC News (@ABC) June 22, 2023
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