The film director and submersible maker thought it was a 'horrible idea' and wish he'd spoken up earlier about finding the hull design risky.
Movie director and submersible maker James Cameron said on Thursday, June 22 he wishes he had sounded the alarm earlier about the submersible TitanAll five aboard the vessel were killed.
The cause of the Titan’s implosion has not been determined, but Cameron presumes the critics were correct in warning that a carbon fiber and titanium hull would enable delamination and microscopic water ingress, leading to progressive failure over time. A secret US Navy acoustic detection system recorded “an anomaly consistent with an implosion or explosion in the general vicinity of where the Titan submersible was operating when communications were lost,” the Navy told the Wall Street Journal.