Titanic movie director James Cameron has revealed that he was informed within 24 hours of the Titan submersible disappearing that an implosion had been detected.
The deep sea expert ‘watched over the ensuing days this whole sort of everybody-running-around-with-their-hair-on-fire search, knowing full well that it was futile.’
In an interview with CNN, he said that he received confirmation that there was ‘loud noise consistent with an implosion.”
The film director, who has made more than 30 dives down to the wreckage of the Titanic, said the devastating news did not surprise him as he felt Titan’s carbon fiber hull was ‘fundamentally unsuitable.’
He also said that his multiple dives had been done in a ceramic sub which was more resistant to the intense pressure in deep sea levels.
Cameron, 68, said he was ‘kind of heart sick from the outcome of this.’
“I’ve been living with it for a few days now, as have some of my colleagues in the deep submergence community,” he expressed.
“The first I heard of it was on Monday morning. I immediately got on my network – because it’s a very small community in the deep submergence group – and found out some information with about a half hour that they had lost comms and they had lost tracking simultaneously,” Cameron continued.
“The only scenario that I could come up with in my mind that could account for that was an implosion. A shockwave event so powerful it actually took out a secondary system that has its own pressure vessel and its own battery power supply, which is the transponder that the ship uses to track where the sub is.”
The film director also revealed that he let all of his friends know that they had lost their comrades.
“Then I watched over the ensuing days this whole sort of everybody-running-around-with-their-hair-on-fire search, knowing full well that it was futile, hoping against hope that I was wrong but knowing in my bones that I wasn’t,” he added.
Cameron also said he felt terrible for the heartbroken families who had to ‘go through these false hopes that kept getting dangled as it played out.’
He also did not hold back when he said the people behind OceanGate were reckless.
“H ere’s a case starkly, today, where the collective, we didn’t remember the lesson of Titanic – these guys at OceanGate didn’t,” he went on.
“I just think it’s heartbreaking that it was so preventable.”
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