He director of the film “Titanic” (1997), James Cameronsaid that the operation tourist submarine search in the deep waters a “nightmare farce” took place which prolonged the agony of the passengers’ families.
The director told the BBC in an interview broadcast on Friday 23 June that he “felt it in my bones” that the Titan submarine was lost shortly after hearing that he had lost contact with the surface during his descent towards the wreckage on the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.
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Cameron said the media’s focus in the coming days is that the submarine has a 96-hour oxygen supply and there are sounds of impacts. an “extended, nightmarish farce.”
“This was just a hard and slow turnaround over four days as far as I was concerned,” he said. “because I found out the truth on Monday morning”.
The Titan sank at 8 a.m. Sunday and was reported on schedule that afternoon about 435 miles (700 kilometers) south of St. John’s, Newfoundland.
On Thursday, the US Coast Guard said that wreckage from the submarine had been found at the bottom of the sea. Authorities said all five people on board were killed when the submarine exploded.
Cameron, who has made more than 30 dives on the Titanic wreck, said he knew an “extremely catastrophic event” had occurred as soon as he heard the submarine had lost navigation and communication during its descent.
“For the submarine’s electronics and communications system to fail and its tracking transponder to fail at the same time, the submarine disappeared,” he told British television.
“For me there was no doubt, I knew it the submarine was just below its final depth and position known, and that’s exactly where they found her. no search was made“, he insisted.
“When they finally got a remote-controlled vehicle that could reach the depths, they found it within hours. Probably in a few minutes.”
The director has been a fan of oceanography since childhood and has made dozens of deep-water dives, including one at the deepest point on Earth: the bottom of the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean.
Cameron said that “one of the saddest aspects of this is how preventable it really was“.
“Now we have another accident based, unfortunately, on the same principles ignoring the warnings“, he said.
Deep-sea explorers had raised concerns about OceanGate Expeditions’ Titan submersible. They claimed it was too experimental to carry passengers.
OceanGate co-founder Guillermo Söhnlein told Times Radio that CEO Stockton Rush, who was one of the people on Titan, was “extremely committed to safety”.
“He was also extremely diligent in risk management and well aware of the risks of operating in a deep-sea environment,” said Söhnlein, who no longer works for OceanGate.
Source: univision
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