Lying in the icy waters of the North Atlantic since 1912, the Titanic was intended to be turned into a cruise destination by a company called OceanGate. 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. Director James Cameron, who brought the story of Titanic to the cinemas in 1997, made 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. When he got the news, he shared that he felt what happened to his bones:
Cameron shared that he learned about the deactivated systems in the submarine from the sources he reached after learning about the accident.
Without a catastrophic event, both the electronics and the communications system might not have gone at the same time:
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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