'We now have another wreck that is based on unfortunately the same principles of not heeding warnings.'
“I watched over the ensuing days this whole sort of ‘everybody running around with their hair on fire’ search, knowing full well that it was futile, hoping against hope that I was wrong but knowing in my bones that I wasn’t. So it certainly wasn’t a surprise today. I just feel terrible for the families that had to go through all these false hopes that kept getting dangled as it played out,” he added.
There have also been reports that the Titan submersible had safety and technical issues. Alarms were raised about the faulty hull of the vessel but they went largely unaddressed. Pointing out the irony of the catastrophe, Cameron likened the implosion of the Titan sub to the sinking of the Titanic in 1912.
"We now have another wreck that is based on unfortunately the same principles of not heeding warnings," he toldThe ROV deployed in the deep seas was also able to find debris in the submersible, including the vessel’s tail cone and the landing frame. Over the next couple of weeks and probably months, investigators will try to find whether the cause of the implosion was structural failure.
"There is no black box, so you are not going to be able to track the last movements of the vessel itself," said Ryan Ramsey, a former submarine captain in Britain's Royal Navy.
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