He said he immediately made some calls to his network and found out within about half an hour that the Titan had lost communications and tracking simultaneously. "Now there's one wreck lying next to the other wreck," he said, "for the same damn reason." Cameron was convinced the vessel had imploded on SundayĬameron told CNN that he was out on a ship himself on Sunday, so didn't hear about the missing vessel until Monday morning. He said he regrets not speaking up more this time around. Navy heard the likely implosion of the missing Titan sub on SundayĬameron described OceanGate's use of a carbon-fiber hull as "fundamentally flawed" and said he had warned another company several years ago against using that same design principle.
"And for 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."Ĭameron stressed that deep submergence diving is "a mature art," with very few accidents when it began in the 1960s and an even better safety record now, thanks in large part to the certification protocols that almost all such vehicles follow - except this one. "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 up full speed into an ice field on a moonless night, and many people died as a result," Cameron said. National Experts raised safety concerns about OceanGate years before its Titanic sub vanishedĬameron and many others in the deep submergence community had long been concerned about the vessel's safety and OceanGate's experimental approach, he said on Thursday, lamenting that the company had ignored experts' calls to undergo a standard certification process.
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