Last Sunday the eyes of the whole world focused on the Atlantic Ocean due to the disappearance of five people who were inside the ‘Titan’ submersible, to visit the remains of the Titanic at a depth of 4,000 meters. Yesterday the news broke that the submarine had imploded, taking the lives of the crew in a matter of seconds.
James Cameron, the director of one of the best-known films in history, such as the film adaptation of the Titanic tragedy, wanted to give his opinion on what happened. And it is not the first time that he goes down to the depths of the shipwreck, having done it up to 33 times in his entire life.
“Titanic was the Everest of shipwrecks and I wanted to get it right. I wanted to dive the wreck, not because I wanted to make the movie,” she commented in Playboy magazine. James Cameron is passionate about the history of the most famous ocean liner of all time, and for this reason he himself could not miss seeing its remains in the first person.
Of course, when he found himself sailing on a ship that same Sunday, he did not hear the news of the disappearance of the submersible until the next day. But, his experience going down into the depths and his instincts warned her that something was wrong. “I felt in my bones what had happened. That the electronics of the submarine, its communication system and its tracking transponder failed simultaneously … the submarine disappeared,” he explained on the BBC.
His interest in navigation and, more specifically, in diving, made him pull his strings to find out first-hand about everything that was happening. “I immediately called some of my contacts in the deep-sea diving community on the phone. In about an hour I had the facts,” he said in the aforementioned medium.
But Cameron’s statements go much further. He assured that he was very clear that the implosion had happened and that everything seemed to him “a prolonged farce, a nightmare in which people went from one place to another talking about the noises of blows, and oxygen, and all these things.” . In addition, he recounted knowing where the remains of the submersible were: “I knew that the submarine was exactly below its last known depth and position.”
James Cameron did not want to end his television appearance without commenting on the connection between this tragedy and the one that happened in 1912. He claimed there was a “terrible irony” in the loss of the ‘Titan’ crew, making a comparison with the loss of the Titanic a few years ago. more than a century.
“Now we have another accident which, unfortunately, is based on the same principles of not paying attention to warnings,” the director commented. “OceanGate was warned,” he added. Referring to the fact that the Titanic was also warned of what could happen to it if they did not take all the factors into account. If one thing is clear, it is that there is no one who knows more than Cameron when it comes to the ocean liner.
