'Struck By Similarity': Titanic Director James Cameron Reacts To Titan Submersible Loss

James Cameron also spoke about his reaction to the news of disappearance of the Titan submersible.

The entire world is shocked by the Titan submersible implosion.

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New Delhi: James Cameron, the director of Titanic, talked on Thursday about the tragic loss of the Titan, a tourist submersible that sank not far from the historic Titanic shipwreck. The entire world is shocked by the Titan submersible implosion. According to reports, all five people aboard the submersible were killed after it went missing on Sunday.

In an exclusive interview with ABC News, Cameron said, “Many people in the community were very concerned about this sub, and a number of you know of the top players in the community even wrote letters to the company, saying that what they were doing was too experimental to carry passengers and needed to be certified and so on.”

“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,” he added. 

According to the US Coast Guard, all five passengers of the submersible that vanished while heading to the Titanic debris are believed to have died. Speaking to the media, US Coast Guard Rear Admiral John Mauger disclosed that five major parts of the Titan submersible had been found among debris near the wreckage of the Titanic. 

James Cameron also spoke about his reaction to learning of the disappearance of the Titan submersible. "I felt in my bones what had happened. For the sub's electronics to fail and its communication system to fail, and its tracking transponder to fail simultaneously - sub's gone," Cameron told BBC.

"I immediately got on the phone to some of my contacts in the deep submersible community. Within about an hour I had the following facts. They were on descent. They were at 3500 metres, heading for the bottom at 3800 metres," the director added. 

According to some reports, the ship may have imploded before rescue efforts could begin. To ascertain what caused the implosion, investigators will use the submersible's debris. 

Meanwhile, a Pakistani businessman (Shahzada Dawood) and his son are among the five persons on board the submersible, along with British billionaire Hamish Harding, who worked with the Indian government to restore cheetahs from Namibia.