Death of the passengers of the “Titan” submarine: James Cameron struck by the “resemblance” to the Titanic disaster

2023-06-23 00:46:54

The chances of finding them alive were nothing more than miraculous. The five passengers of the tourist submarine lost since Sunday near the wreck of the “Titanic” finally died in the “catastrophic implosion” of the device, announced Thursday evening the American coast guard. Director James Cameron, whose film about the sinking of the “Titanic” was Oscar-winning, said he was “struck” by the “resemblance” of this incident to the disaster of 1912.

Asked by the American channel ABC New about the tragedy, James Cameron recalled that the sinking of the “Titanic” took place when “the captain was repeatedly warned of the presence of ice in front of his ship and yet went full speed ahead. speed in an ice field on a moonless night”. According to him, the tragedy of the “Titan” occurred when there had also been “warnings”, in this case on the safety of the device and for the passengers.

‘Titanic’ director James Cameron on the ‘catastrophic implosion’ of Titan submersible: “I’m struck by the similarity of the Titanic disaster itself, where the captain was repeatedly warned about ice ahead of his ship and yet he steamed at full speed into an ice field.” pic.twitter.com/vO8JkCXS5f

— ABC News (@ABC) June 22, 2023

“A lot of people in the deep-diving engineering community even sent letters to the company, saying what they were doing was too experimental to carry passengers,” he said. For the director, “it’s a tragedy similar” to that of “Titanic” in the sense that it “happened in exactly the same place, with all the diving activities taking place all over the world, I think simply amazing. It’s really surreal”.

Thirty dives around the “Titanic”

James Cameron also said he was very saddened by the death of French aquanaut Paul-Henri Nargeolet, whom he considered “a friend”.

The American director himself made about thirty dives around the wreck of the “Titanic”, notably for the film on the sinking of the ship which stages Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet but also for the documentary “Ghosts of the Abyss”. .