‘Titanic’ director and deep-sea explorer James Cameron has reacted to the latest update shared by the US Coast Guard related to the Titan submersible. He said that he had suspected the submersible imploded soon after it lost contact with its surface support ship. Cameron said that he came to this conclusion based on the information received from his sources.
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The sub imploded
The Titanic director, who who is part owner of Triton Submarines, which makes submersibles for research and tourism, said ‘I knew what happened’.
“We got a confirmation within an hour that there had been a loud bang at the same time that the sub comms were lost. A loud bang on the hydrophone. Loss of transponder. Loss of comms. I knew what happened. The sub imploded,” he said as quoted by Reuters.
‘Skeptical of OceanGate building’
The Avatar maker further said that he was skeptical of OceanGate building but he never experimented with the technology.
“I thought it was a horrible idea. I wish I’d spoken up, but I assumed somebody was smarter than me, you know, because I never experimented with that technology, but it just sounded bad on its face,” he said.
“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 told ABC News.
The US Coast Guard on Thursday confirmed that all five crew members on board the deep-sea submersible Titan died in a “catastrophic implosion’.
OceanGate, the company which operated the drive, in a statement, said the five people who died shared a distinct spirit of adventure.
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