LOS ANGELES – The director of the film “Titanic”, James Cameron, spoke this Thursday about the tragic implosion of the submersible Titan -in which four passengers and its pilot died-, expressing surprise at its “similarity” with the real case of his own Titanic.
“I am struck by the similarity to the Titanic disaster itself, in which the captain was repeatedly warned about the presence of ice in front of his ship, and yet he went at full speed towards an icy area,” said the Oscar winner. filmmaker in statements to the American chain ABC News.
“It’s a very similar tragedy in the same place. It’s amazing and really surreal. (…) It’s about a nightmare that has passed through the back of all our minds at some point,” Cameron added.
Likewise, the Canadian director, who defended the safe practice of deep-sea diving, stressed that “many people” had expressed concern about the OceanGate Expeditions company because “what they were doing was too experimental and needed to be certified.”
The submersible was operated by this company whose CEO, Stockton Rush, was among those killed and who has also been criticized for allegedly using commercial components for some parts of his ship.
The blockbuster film “Titanic” (1997) relied heavily on footage of the actual shipwreck site and shots of how submersible devices were used to explore the wreckage.
In his statements, Cameron added that he was a “friend” of the French pilot Paul-Henri Nargeolet, one of the Titan’s passengers, whom he had known for 25 years and said that a death “in such a tragic way is almost impossible to process.” .
The US Coast Guard announced this Thursday that the “debris” found near the area where the remains of the Titanic are located correspond to the external part of the Titan submersible, which disappeared since Sunday with five people on board.
Rear Admiral John Mauger, of the Coast Guard, also stated that the occupants died.
The remains of the device were found by a remote-controlled vehicle operated by the Canadian ship Horizon Arctic and later experts determined that “they are consistent with a catastrophic implosion”, that is, a rupture and collapse caused by the greater pressure from the outside.
Despite the fact that there is no longer any hope of finding them alive, the work to recover the remains of the device will continue.
All this to try to find out what happened since the submersible lost contact with the outside world on Sunday, when the implosion occurred and also what were the causes of the accident.
