James Cameron, the director of the movie Titanic, who landed on the Titanic 33 times with a submarine, made an interesting statement about the lost Titan submarine. Cameron shared what he did and thought after the event.
The Titanic, which has been lying in the icy waters of the North Atlantic since 1912, OceanGate It was intended to be turned into a sightseeing spot by a company called However, the company’s submarine Titan, along with its passengers and pilot, was lost in the ocean recently.
While the latest development regarding the incident was the news that a wreck was found 500 meters from the Titanic, today an interesting statement regarding the incident came. The director who brought the story of Titanic to the cinemas in 1997 James Cameronmade a statement about how the submarine may have sunk.
“I understand what happened to the submarine”
Speaking to the BBC, James Cameron stated that he was on a ship on the Sunday when the incident took place, and that he received the news on Monday. What happened when you got the news? feel it down to your bones shared:
“I felt what was happening down to my bones. The submarine’s electronic and communication systems went out at the same time, the radio transmitter was unresponsive… I understood what happened to the submarine.
Cameron shared that he learned about the deactivated systems in the submarine from the sources he reached after learning about the accident.
I immediately accessed my contacts from the submarine community and within an hour I got the following information. They were landing. When they were at 3,500 meters, they were heading towards 3,800 meters.”
Without a catastrophic event, both the electronics and the communications system might not have gone at the same time:
“If there was no catastrophic event, you wouldn’t lose both at the same time, it must have been a high-energy disaster. The first thing that came to my mind was an implosion.”
US Coast Guard officials also explained that the reason for the sinking of the submarine was an inward explosion caused by pressure loss. It was shared that the explosion took place 478 meters from the nose of the Titanic wreckage.
Director James Cameron also knew the risks inside a submarine very well, having dived into the wreckage of the Titanic 33 times.
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