Struck by similarity of Titanic disaster: James Cameron on the implosion of Titan submersible

Following the ‘catastrophic implosion’ of the Titan submersible, Titanic director James Cameron said, the sub met with the same fate as Titanic.

Speaking to ABC News, Cameron said, “Deep submergence diving is a matured art. And as far as I know, all other deep submergence vehicles, except this one have impeccable safety records while taking people to deep sea. Many people in the community were very concerned about this sub. A number of top players in the deep submergence engineering community even wrote letters to the company saying what they were doing is too experimental and they needed to be certified.”

“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," Cameron added.

As per reports, Academy Award-winning director, James Cameron has himself dived 33 times to the Titanic wreckage site. As per Cameron’s claims, he spent more time on Titanic than the Captain of the ship back in the day. He has also dived into the Mariana Trench the deepest trench on the planet in a 24-feet submersible called deep-sea Challenger.

The submersible, Titan operated by OceanGate Expeditions went missing more than 600 kilometre off the coast of Newfoundland in eastern Canada early Sunday morning during a dive to the wreck of the Titanic in the North Atlantic with five passengers on board.

The passengers included Hamish Harding, a billionaire, and explorer; Paul-Henry Nargeolet, a French explorer; Shahzada Dawood and his son, Suleman Dawood, members of a prominent Pakistani family; and OceanGate Expeditions CEO and Titan pilot Stockton Rush.

On its website, the OceanGate advertises a seven-night voyage to the Titanic for $250,000 per person with the money raised from tourists going toward Titanic research.