Director James Cameron, who has been down to the Titanic wreck 33 times, talked to ABC News yesterday after it was announced that all five members aboard the Titan submarine had died. “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,” said Cameron, who directed the movie “Titanic.” “For a very similar tragedy, where warnings went unheeded, to take place at the same exact site with all the diving that’s going on all around the world, I think is just astonishing.” “It’s really quite surreal,” he noted before discussing the complexities of building a submarine for such depths. “A number of the top players in this deep-submergence engineering community even wrote letters to the company, saying that what they were doing was too experimental to carry passengers and that it needed to be certified,” Cameron added, backing up his claims that the OceanGate CEO, who was aboard the sub, had been warned.
