The filmmaker directed the movie Titanic 26 years ago (Picture: ABC News/AP)
James Cameron, the director of the 1997 movie about the Titanic tragedy of 1912, has shared his views on the missing submarine.
The film director said that he was ‘struck by the similarity of the Titanic disaster itself’, when the captain of the ship ‘was repeatedly warned about ice ahead of his ship’, but still ‘steamed at full speed into an ice field on a moonless night’, resulting in hundreds of deaths.
‘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,’ he told ABC News.
On Thursday June 22, a US Coast Guard spokesperson said that debris found in the search for the missing submersible Titan, which went missing after a dive to the wreckage of Titanic, was ‘consistent with the catastrophic loss of the pressure chamber’.
It was announced that all five of the individuals on the submersible were believed to have died.
OceanGate said in a statement: ‘Our hearts are with these five souls and every member of their families during this tragic time. We grieve the loss of life and joy they brought to everyone they knew.’
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The filmmaker directed the movie Titanic 26 years ago.