Five victims inside the submersible were confirmed dead on Thursday, four days after the sub began its 2.4-mile trip to view the Titanic wreckage.
James Cameron pointed out a “similarity” between the OceanGate tourist submersible tragedy and the 1912 sinking of the Titanic ship.
“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,” the “Titanic” directorCameron, who has visited the historical wreckage numerous times himself, called it “astonishing” for a “similar tragedy” to take place after the owner of the submersible company,He recalled in the televised interview that “top players in the deep submergence engineering...
The filmmaker compared warnings the captain of the Titanic received to those OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush received about his submersible before the tragedy.The “Titanic” director first dived to visit the famed ship in 1995 and has returned to the wreckage numerous times since then.According to the “Avatar” director, 68, the professionals told Rush that his submersible was “too experimental to carry passengers” and that it needed to be further “certified” before taking people to the ocean floor.
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