James Cameron says the “catastrophic implosion” reminds him of the 1912 disaster
James Cameron breaks silence on the deadly Titanic Five disaster, saying it reminds him of the sinking of the Titanic as the ‘captain was repeatedly warned’ but ‘steamed ahead at full speed’
Filmmaker James Cameron has broken his silence over the devastating submarine implosion 60 meters from the bow of the Titanic wreck.
The director of the 1997 hit movie based on the shipwreck tragedy Cameron said the “catastrophic implosion” of OceanGate’s Titan submarine reminds him of the 1912 disaster.
Speak against ABC news he said: ‘I am struck by the similarity of the disaster to the Titanic itself where the captain was repeatedly warned of ice ahead of his ship and yet he steamed full speed into an ice field on a moonless night and many people died as a result .’
It is the first time the director and self-proclaimed “submarine enthusiast” has spoken publicly about the tragedy.
His comments come after OceanGate confirmed that all five passengers on the submarine died “immediately” in the implosion.
Titanic director Cameron said the ‘catastrophic implosion’ of OceanGate’s Titan submarine, which killed five men, reminds him of the 1912 disaster
‘Titanic’ director James Cameron on the ‘catastrophic implosion’ of the submarine Titan: ‘I am struck by the similarity of the disaster to the Titanic itself, where the captain was repeatedly warned of ice ahead of his ship and yet he steamed at full steam. speed in an ice field.” pic.twitter.com/vO8JkCXS5f
— ABC News (@ABC) June 22, 2023
Speaking of the tragedy, Cameron said, “I spent more time on the ship than the captain did that day.
“Many people in the community were very concerned about this submarine.
“Some of the top players in the deep immersion engineering community even wrote letters to the company saying that what they were doing was too experimental to carry passengers and that it should be certified and so forth.
“It’s a very similar tragedy where warnings were not heeded – for it to take place in exactly the same place with all the diving going on around the world, I just think it’s amazing it’s really quite surreal.
‘Paul-Henri Nargeolet, legendary dive pilot, a friend of mine. I’ve known PH for 25 years and that he died in this tragic way is almost impossible for me to process.’
Cameron himself made 33 dives to the wreck of the Titanic and dived into the Mariana Trench – one of the deepest places in the ocean.
A remote-controlled submarine from a Canadian ship found debris from the ship on the ocean floor Thursday morning.
Search and rescue officials say the men likely died on Sunday — before military aircraft using sonar buoys detected what they say could be SOS sounds in the water.
The victims include OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, French Navy veteran Paul-Henri (PH) Nargeolet, British billionaire Hamish Harding, Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman, who just turned 19.
“The implosion would have produced significant broadband noise that the sonar buoys would have picked up,” US Coast Guard Vice Admiral John Mauger said at a news conference today.
It would have been instant death for the men, some of whom paid $250,000 each to see the famous shipwreck.
In a heartbreaking blow to their families, experts say there is little chance of recovering any of their remains.
“This is an incredibly brutal environment down there. The debris is consistent with a catastrophic implosion of the ship. We will continue to work and search the area down there – but I don’t have an answer to the outlook at this point,” said Paul Hankin, a deep-sea expert involved in the quest said.