1997’s director James Cameron TitanicIn an interview Thursday, he said he correctly predicted the fate of the Titan submarine less than 24 hours after it disappeared on Sunday, and then watched the “futile” search unfold, “despite hope I was wrong”.
A prolific deep-sea explorer himself, Cameron explained to CNN’s Anderson Cooper that he missed the first report of OceanGate Expeditions losing contact with a submarine after putting it out to sea with a ship. But by Monday morning, he was in contact with his colleagues, whom he called the “deep underwater community.”
Learning from them that both communication and tracking were lost at the same time, Cameron said he began to suspect an internal explosion, “a shock wave of events powerful enough to actually destroy” a secondary system with its own fault cases.
“I honked the horn again with other people, tracking down some intelligence that probably had a military origin, but it could have been a study – because there are hydrophones all over the Atlantic – and I got confirmation that there was some kind of loud noise consistent with the explosion event,” he continued. did the director.
“This seemed like enough confirmation to me. I informed all my inner circle that we had lost our comrades. And I encouraged everyone to have a toast on Monday.”
Cameron said he got the information from “reliable sources” and said, “I took that as a factor… I couldn’t think of any other scenario where a submarine would disappear, losing communication and navigation at the same time, and it stayed out of contact and didn’t surface.
He told BBC News the next few days “feel like a long, nightmarish shenanigan with people running around and talking about rumbles and oxygen and all that stuff.”
“I knew the submarine was just below its last known depth and position,” he said. “That’s exactly where they found it.”
On Thursday, the U.S. Coast Guard confirmed at a press conference that evidence of wreckage found near the Titanic’s wreckage indicated a “disastrous explosion” had occurred that killed all five people on board.
Cameron said he knew “inside.” [his] Bones ”was right even before the announcement. “So today was absolutely no surprise.”
On CNN, Cameron added that he believes the passengers on the submarine “received a warning that they heard the hull starting to delaminate.” Cameron believes that they heard the delamination (the process by which water begins to separate the fiber layers) “in the last moments of their lives with their ears, not through the sensor system, and that’s a pretty terrifying prospect.”
He told Titanic that it was “unreasonable” for OceanGate, the company responsible for the dive mission, not to go through proper safety procedures. He confirmed he had never had anything to do with OceanGate and didn’t try to warn billionaire Stockton Rush about the security issues, he thought, “maybe they’ve fixed it.” [safety issues]”
In an earlier interview on Thursday, he told ABC News that several of his deep-sea colleagues have written letters to OceanGate officials in the past warning that their divers are too experimental and their safety needs to be confirmed.
“I was stunned by the analogy of the Titanic disaster, where the captain was repeatedly warned of the icing ahead of his ship and yet he plunged full throttle into the ice field on a moonless night and many people died as a result,” Kamer said.
“For us, it’s a very similar tragedy where the warnings were ignored. I think it is very surprising that it takes place in the same place as all the dives going on all over the world. It’s really quite surreal.”
A diving expert who has participated in more than 30 deep-sea expeditions, Cameron made a record-breaking dive into a submarine valley in the Mariana Trench in 2012 in an experimental boat of his own design.
He said he did not “knowingly” request certification for his ship. New York Times Thursday, because this was a scientific one-man mission.
“I would never design a vehicle that would take passengers and get its certificate,” he said.