James Cameron, director of the 1997 Hollywood blockbuster Titanic, has informed the BBC that the crew that constructed the submarine that exploded, killing all five people within, “cut corners” in its construction. “They didn’t get certified because they knew they wouldn’t pass,” says OceanGate, the Titan sub’s parent firm.I had serious doubts about the reliability of the technologies they were using. He stated, “Had I known it was a submarine, I never would have boarded it.
Cameron has made 33 dives to the Titanic wreck in a submersible. Titan was fabricated from titanium and carbon fiber. During the Deepsea Challenger submersible expedition in the Pacific in 2012, Cameron utilized a different technology to descend to a depth of 10,912 meters (35,800 feet), making it the first human to reach this depth. The depth of the Titanic disaster is about 12,500 feet, or 3,810 meters. Cameron said that he knew something terrible had happened when he found out the submarine had lost both navigation and communication.
I knew it to be true down inside my bones. If the submarine’s tracking transponder fails at the same time as its electronics, its communication system, and its power supply, the submarine is doomed. St. John’s mourns a classic tragedy with the loss of Titan.
According to him, “I immediately got on the phone to some of my contacts in the deep submersible community” on Monday when he learned the sub had vanished. I had the following information in less an hour. They were going downhill. They had descended to 3,500 meters (11,483 feet) and were making their way to the bottom at 3,800 meters.
