He himself sank 33 times, the director of Titanic talks about the ship Titan: This is why I thought from the beginning that it had exploded

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He himself sank 33 times, the director of Titanic talks about the ship Titan:
Director James Cameron

Hollywood film director James Cameron, who made the 1997 film Titanic, told the BBC that he felt the loss of the submarine 'Titan' was very close to his heart. He himself dived 33 times to the wreck of the Titanic. He said he was on a ship on Sunday when the submarine disappeared.

When he learned that the submarine had lost both navigation and communications at the same time, he said he immediately suspected disaster.

'I felt in my bones what had happened. For the submarine's electronics to fail and its communications system to fail, and its tracking transponder to fail' The
director continued: 'I immediately got on the phone some of my contacts in the deep diving community. Within about an hour I had the facts of below. They were descending. They were at 3,500 meters, going down to 3,800 meters.

"Communications with them were lost and navigation was lost — and I immediately said, you can't lose communications and navigation together without an extreme catastrophic event. And the first thing that came to mind was an explosion."

Cameron told BBC News that the past week had "felt like a nightmare, where people are running around talking about banging noises and talking about oxygen and all these other things".

"I knew the submarine was sitting exactly below its last known depth and position. That's where they found it," he continued.
He added that once a remote-controlled underwater vehicle was deployed on Thursday, searchers "had found it within hours, maybe within minutes."

Cameron also said there was a "terrible irony" in the loss of the Titan and its crew, comparing it to the loss of the Titanic itself in 1912.

"Now we have another debacle that is unfortunately based on the same principles of not heeding warnings," he said. "The OceanGate tragedy was forewarned."
He said the company had had people working in-house leave, but he did not specify why.

He went on to say that some within the diving community, not directly including himself, had written a letter to OceanGate saying "you are heading down a path to disaster".

Cameron is not the first to raise concerns about the travel firm's operations.

A letter sent to OceanGate by the Marine Technology Society (MTS) in March 2018 and obtained by the New York Times said "the current 'experimental' approach adopted by OceanGate... could backfire (from minor to catastrophic damage) ".


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