Titanic director James Cameron has criticized the search for the missing Titan, saying the ship exploded hours after losing contact with the water.
Cameron, a submersible pioneer who made 33 solo trips to the wreck of the Titanic, told the BBC on Friday that he “felt in his bones” that the Titanic submersible disappeared shortly afterward. Five people were reportedly on board.
The 68-year-old director said the process of finding the submersible - including counting down the remaining oxygen supply and hearing explosions - "was like a protracted, nightmarish puzzle game".
According to Yahoo, the Canadian filmmaker shared in an interview on June 23: "We have confirmed that there was a big explosion at the same time that the ship lost contact. There was a loud bang from the transceiver and everything lost contact. I know what happened. The submarine exploded."
After that, the director sent a letter to his colleagues, "Currently, the ship is broken on the bottom of the sea." He wrote in the letter.
James Cameron, who has dived into the wreck of the Titanic more than 30 times, said he wished he had sounded the alarm about the submersible sooner. When James Cameron heard that OceanGate was building ships with carbon-fiber composites and titanium hulls, he had doubts about the safety of such adventure travel.
He thinks it's a terrible idea. He wishes he could say it because he has never tested the technology, but on paper, it does. Listen It looks bad," James Cameron told Reuters.
According to New York Post, “I felt in my bones what had happened. For the sub’s electronics to fail and its communication system to fail, and its tracking transponder to fail simultaneously — sub’s gone,” he said.
According to The New York Times report, as soon as Cameron heard about the disappearance, he strongly criticized OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush for never proving the tourist sub was safe enough.
On the morning of June 23, the US Coast Guard confirmed that five people aboard a missing Tintan submersible had died in a catastrophic explosion.
Rear Admiral John Mauger of the US Coast Guard, who is leading the search for Titan, said "The debris is consistent with a catastrophic loss of the pressure chamber. Upon this determination, we immediately notified the families".
Five people on board the missing Titan submersible have been confirmed dead, including British billionaire Hamish Harding, French expert Paul Henri Nargiolet, OceanGate Expeditions founder Stockton Rush, Pakistani businessman Shahzada Daoud and his son Suleiman.
