Titanic missing sub: Famed director James Cameron calls search a ‘nightmarish charade’
David Zimmermann
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Hollywood filmmaker James Cameron recently weighed in on what he thought happened to the Titan submersible that went missing on a deep-sea dive to the Titanic earlier this week.
Cameron, who wrote and directed the 1997 Titanic film, said the search mission for the underwater vessel since its disappearance on Sunday was a “prolonged, nightmarish charade” that gave the families of the five passengers futile hope, the Associated Press reported.
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“That was just a cruel, slow turn of the screw for four days as far as I’m concerned,” he told BBC News on Friday. “Because I knew the truth on Monday morning.”
Cameron added he already knew the outcome of the missing sub’s fate, saying that he “felt [it] in my bones.”
“For the sub’s electronics to fail and its communication system to fail, and its tracking transponder to fail simultaneously — sub’s gone,” the director said.
“I knew that sub was sitting exactly underneath its last known depth and position, and that’s exactly where they found it. There was no search. When they finally got an ROV down there that could make the depth, they found it within hours. Probably within minutes,” Cameron said.
Cameron, an unofficial oceanography expert, has made over 30 dives to the Titanic wreckage site in his lifetime and has collaborated on several documentaries about the ship.
The Titanic and Avatar director called the tragic incident “preventable,” accusing OceanGate Expeditions of cutting corners with the experimental vessel. The technology used to operate the ship included a video game controller and a simple button similar to one found on an elevator.
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“We now have another wreck that is based on, unfortunately, the same principles of not heeding warnings,” Cameron said.
Debris from the underwater vessel was found near the wrecked Titanic, the Coast Guard announced Thursday, and the five passengers aboard are presumed to be dead.