Submarine missing near TitanicFilesThe director of the film “Titanic” on Thursday evening, June 22, openly denounced the “ignored warnings” regarding the safety of the tourist submarine that imploded near the wreck of the famous ocean liner and killed five people killed.
Two days ago we imagined what James Cameron might say about the fate of the submarine that set out to explore the wreck of the Titanic. Sought from all sides, the American director, whose most famous film Titanic, broke his silence on Thursday evening, June 22, expressing outrage at the “ignored warnings” regarding the safety of the tourist submersible Titan, which is near the wreck of the Titanic imploded Famous ocean liner killing five people. On the American channel ABC News, the diving-loving director drew a parallel between this new accident and the sinking of the liner in 1912, which killed 1,500 people. “I am struck by the resemblance to the Titanic disaster, where the captain was repeatedly warned of the presence of ice ahead of his ship and yet crashed into an ice field at full speed on a moonless night,” he remarked.
Titan has caused a great deal of concern in the small world of underwater exploration, recalled the filmmaker, who visited the wreck many times to film his 1997 planetary hit, which won 11 Oscars. “May a very similar drama unfold in the same place, with warnings ignored,” […] “It’s just great,” said the director. “It’s really surreal.”
The threat of an implosion is a “major concern” for Cameron.
The US Coast Guard announced on Thursday that the submersible OceanGate, missing in the North Atlantic since Sunday, suffered a “catastrophic implosion” in the depths of the ocean. The five men who were on board are now presumed dead. The risk of a submersible imploding is always a “main concern” during construction, recalls James Cameron, who in 2012 became the first person on board a submarine he designed himself, dived alone into the depths of the ocean. “This is the nightmare we’ve all been living with since we stepped into this realm,” he insisted, citing the impeccable security most players achieve in the underwater exploration world.
But “a lot of people in the community were very concerned about this submersible” from OceanGate, he recalled. “A number of key players in the deep diving community even wrote letters to the company saying their work was too experimental to carry passengers.”
Moved by the disappearance of Paul-Henri Nargeolet
Since the research began, indications of possible technical oversights by OceanGate in the underwater tourism device have been uncovered. According to a 2018 complaint, a former company executive, David Lochridge, was fired after raising serious doubts about the safety of the submersible.
James Cameron was also moved by the death of Paul-Henri Nargeolet, the French explorer who was one of the five victims of the accident. The director knew this man by the nickname “Mr. Titanic” for his numerous dives on site. “It’s almost impossible for me to accept that he died tragically like that,” the screenwriter lamented.