13 minutes agoTitanic Director: OceanGate has been warned of danger
Periskopi(3 years ago)
(3 years ago)The Hollywood director James Cameron, who directed the 1997 film Titanic, said that he had experienced the loss of Titan's submarine very close to his heart. He himself has plunged 33 times to the ruins of the Titanic. The submarine Titan, which disappeared on June 18th, is believed to have exploded and as a result of [...]
The Hollywood director James Cameron, who directed the 1997 film Titanic, said that he had experienced the loss of Titan's submarine very close to his heart. He himself has plunged 33 times to the ruins of the Titanic.
The submarine Titan, which disappeared on June 18th, is believed to have exploded, and as a result of this, the ship's operator OceanGate, said on June 22nd that the five passengers aboard the submarine are believed to have died, according to the ship's operator OceanGate.
In an interview for the British broadcaster BBC, Cameron said some people within the diving community had written a letter to Oceangate saying they believed, in Cameron's words, that the company “was heading towards disaster”.
Cameron also suggested that there was a terrible “ron” in the loss of Titan and his crew, comparing it with the loss of the Titanic itself in 1912.
“Now we have another collapse that is unfortunately based on the same principles of failing to listen to the” warnings, he said. “OceanGate was warned”.
He said that many had left the company, but he didn't specify why.
Cameron is not the first to raise concerns about the OceanGate tourist company's activities.
A letter sent to the OceanGate by the Marine Technology Society (MTS) in March 2018 and received from the New York Times said that the current “experimental interface approved by OceanGate... could lead to negative results (from small to catastrophic)”.
Even the documents of an American court show that a former Oceangate employee warned of possible security problems since 2018.
The documents show that David Lochridge, the company's naval operations director, raised concerns in an inspection report.
An OceanGate spokesman refused to comment on security issues raised by Lochridge and MTS.
Cameron said he was on a ship on Sunday when the submarine disappeared and did not hear the news of her disappearance until Monday.
When he learned that the submarine had lost navigation and communication at the same time, he said he suspected an accident had immediately occurred.
I felt in my body what had happened. To fail the submarine electronics, its communication system and tracking transponsor simultaneously .
He said he immediately thought there might have been an explosion.
