London: James Cameron, the director of the 1997 movie Titanic has said he knew the fate of the missing submersible before the world did. James Cameron also said that the search for missing submersible ‘Titan’ is futile and added that he knew that it would be impossible to find survivors. In a recent interview with the BBC, the Titanic director said that he already knew about the explosion, and it wasn’t a ‘surprise’. He blamed ‘OceanGate Expeditions’ for the disaster as they did not follow safety procedures even after getting letters from the deep-submergence community.
Cameron sat down for an interview with BBC recently, where he said that he had missed initially the news of the ‘Titan’ submersible. Cameron also clarified that he contacted the ‘the deep submergence community’ and started talking about the accident. It was then he came to know that communications and tracking both had been lost. It then became clear to him that finding any survivor from the ‘Titan’ would be impossible.
“I got on the horn again with some other people, tracked down some intel that was probably of a military origin, although it could have been research – because there are hydrophones all over the Atlantic – and got confirmation that there was some kind of loud noise consistent with an implosion event,” Cameron has been quoted as saying by the BBC. “Then I knew the fate of the people on the submersible. I let the people in my inner circle know about what must have happened and encouraged them to raise a glass in honour of their lost comrades,” Cameron added.
Cameron said that it was ‘unconscionable’ of ‘OceanGate’ that it did not carry out the required safety protocols and procedures. He also revealed that many of his deep-submergence colleagues wrote letters to the company to warn them about issues regarding its safety.
Cameron compared the present day tragedy to the sinking of the Titanic. “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 said.
It should be stated here that Cameron is an expert on the matter. He has been on 30 deep-sea expeditions himself. In 2012, he also built an experimental craft with his own design that took him on a record-breaking dive in the ‘Mariana Trench’.