James Cameron, a renowned Hollywood director, expressed his feelings in response to the terrible suspected deaths of the five people on board the submersible Titan.
Speaking to ABC News on Thursday, before the disastrous voyage, Cameron said that the diving community was “deeply concerned” about the submersible’s safety.
He averred, “A number of the top players in the deep submergence engineering community even wrote letters to the company, saying that what they were doing was to experimental to carry passengers and that it needed to be certified.”
Cameron compared the historic Titanic catastrophe to the discovery of Titan debris, which strongly suggests that the crew members were killed.
“I’m struck by the similarity of the Titanic disaster itself, where the captain was repeatedly warned about ice field on a moonless night and many people dies as a result.”
Cameron elucidated, “For us, it’s a very similar tragedy where warnings went unheeded… To take place at the same exact site with all the diving that’s going on all around the world, I think it’s just astonishing. It’s really quite surreal.”
The five people on board the missing submersible have died, OceanGate, the organisation in charge of the disastrous trip, confirmed on Thursday afternoon.
“We now believe that our CEO Stockton Rush, Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman Dawood, Hamish Harding, and Paul-Henri Nargeolet, have sadly been lost,” the expedition company stated.
“These men were true explorers who shared a distinct spirit of adventure, and a deep passion for exploring and protecting the world’s oceans. Our hearts are with these five souls and every member of their families during the tragic time. We grieve the loss of life and joy they brought to everyone they knew.”
The deaths of the five explorers have left a sombre impression on the whole explorer community and have had a significant emotional impact on those who are interested in maritime exploration.
