‘Titanic’ director James Cameron says he knew sub imploded soon after it went missing

After the US Coast Guard confirmed that the Titan submersible was destroyed in an implosion, ‘Titanic’ director and deep-sea explorer James Cameron said.

That he had suspected the submersible imploded soon after it lost contact with its surface support ship. James Cameron, who is part owner of Triton Submarines, which makes submersibles for research and tourism, said he came to this conclusion based on information received from his sources.

“We got confirmation within an hour that there had been a loud bang at the same time that the sub comms were lost. A loud bang on the hydrophone. Loss of transponder. Loss of comms. I knew what happened. The sub imploded,” he said as quoted by Reuters.

James Cameron also said that he was skeptical of OceanGate building a submersible with a composite carbon fiber and titanium hull.

“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, but it just sounded bad on its face,” he said.

Cameron also drew a parallel between the 1912 Titanic disaster and the Titan implosion, saying that in both the cases, the people leading the expeditions ignored warning signs which endangered people’s lives.

“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 on a moonless night, and many people died as a result,” Cameron told ABC News as quoted by news agency AFP.