James Camerondirector in 1997 Titanicsaid in an interview on Thursday that he correctly guessed the fate of Titan submersible less than 24 hours after it disappeared on Sunday — then saw a “futile” search unfold, “hopefully the opposite of hope that I was wrong”.
Cameron, an accomplished deep-sea explorer, explained to CNN’s Anderson Cooper that he had missed initial news that OceanGate Expeditions had lost contact with its submersible while at sea on a ship. By Monday morning, however, he had managed to reach his colleagues in what he calls a “deeply flooded community”.
Learning from them that both communications and tracking were lost simultaneously, Cameron said he began to suspect an explosion, “a shock wave of events so powerful that it actually hit the ground.” collapse” monitor, a secondary system with its own backup safes.
“I honked again with a few others, tracking down some intelligence that might have a military origin, even though it could be research – because there are many underwater stethoscopes across the Atlantic – and has confirmed that there is some kind of loud sound. noise befitting an explosion,” continued the director.
“To me that seems confirming enough. I have let everyone close to me know that we have lost our comrades. And I encouraged everyone to raise a glass in their honor on Monday.”
Cameron said he has received information from “reliable sources” and “I consider that a factor…I can’t think of any other situation where a sub would be lost when it does. lost contact and navigation at the same time, and no contact and no surface.
I said BBC news that the next few days are “like a long and nightmare charade where people run around talking about explosions and talking about oxygen and all that stuff.”
“I know that submarine lies exactly below its depth and last known location,” he said. “That’s exactly where they found it.”
On Thursday, the US Coast Guard confirmed in a press conference that debris evidence found near the wreck of the Titanic suggests a “catastrophic explosion” occurred, killing all five people. on the train.
Cameron said he knew “in [his] bones” that he was right even before the announcement. “So it’s definitely not a surprise today.”
On CNN, Cameron added that he believes the submarine’s passengers “have received several warnings that they have heard some audible signs of the hull starting to separate.” Cameron believes they heard delamination – the process when water begins to separate layers of fibers from each other – “with their ears and not through a sensor system in the final moments of their lives, and It’s a pretty horrifying prospect.”
He said it was “unconscionable” for the company to take responsibility for Titanic sinking missionOceanGate, did not pass the match safe procedure. He insists he has never done business with OceanGate and did not try to warn billionaire Stockton Rush about his safety problems, thinking “maybe they have solved it. [safety issues].”
In an earlier interview on Thursday, he told ABC News that some of his deep-diving colleagues had previously written to OceanGate officials, warning that their subs were too tested and its safety should be certified.
“I was struck by the similarity of the Titanic disaster itself, when the captain was constantly warned of the ice ahead of his ship, but he plunged at full speed into an ice field on a moonless night. and many people died as a result, Cameron said.
“For us, it is a similar tragedy when the warnings are not heeded. To be in the same place with all the diving going on around the world, I think that’s amazing. It’s actually quite surreal.
A professional diver who has participated in more than 30 deep-sea expeditions, Cameron in 2012 piloted a test vessel of his own design on a record-breaking dive into an undersea valley in the Mariana Trench.
He was “intentionally” not seeking certification for his ship, he said The New York Times on Thursday, because it’s a scientific — and alone — mission.
“I would never design a passenger vehicle without being certified,” he said.
