Titanic director James Cameron said he knew the Titanic was destroyed less than 24 hours after losing contact with the ship, reports Sky.
In an interview with Reuters on Thursday, filmmaker Cameron said he learned about the acoustic finds within a day and knew what they meant.
“I sent emails to everybody I know and said we’ve lost some friends. The sub had imploded. It’s on the bottom in pieces right now. I sent that out Monday morning,” he recalled, reports Sky.
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Cameron said he wanted to sound the alarm earlier about Oceangate technology.
The director, who dived 33 times on the wreck of the Titanic, says he belongs to a small and close-knit community of divers.
When he heard that Oceangate was building deep-sea submarines with composite carbon fibre and titanium hulls, Cameron said he was sceptical.
“I thought it was a horrible idea. I wish I’d spoken up, but I assumed somebody was smarter than me, you know, because I never experimented with that technology,” he said, reports Sky.
The director said the industry standard is to make pressure hulls from adjacent materials such as steel, titanium, ceramic or acrylic, which are better suited to testing.
In the interview with BBC News, Cameron told how he “felt in my bones what had happened”, reports Sky.
“For the sub’s electronics to fail and its communication system to fail, and its tracking transponder to fail simultaneously – sub’s gone. I knew that sub was sitting exactly underneath its last known depth and position. That’s exactly where they found it. [It] felt like a prolonged and nightmarish charade where people are running around talking about banging noises and talking about oxygen and all this other stuff. I immediately got on the phone to some of my contacts in the deep submersible community. Within about an hour I had the following facts. They were on descent. They were at 3,500m, heading for the bottom at 3,800m,” reports Sky.
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