‘Preventable’: ‘Titanic’ director James Cameron blames doomed Titan sub for not getting certified
“And that to me was the greatest heartbreak of the whole thing,” said the director, who was friends for 25 years with one ofHe called submersible travel a “mature art” where there have been no serious incidents since 1960, making it the safety “gold standard.”“Not only no fatalities but no major incidents,” he told ABC, saying that every single passenger-carrying submersible follows certification protocols — “except this one.”told The New York Times.
He noted a letter sent by “the top players in the deep-submergence engineering community” that warned OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush — the Titan pilot among the five who died — that his sub “was too experimental to carry passengers and that it needed to be certified.” “And for a very similar tragedy where warnings went unheeded to take place at the same exact site … I think is just astonishing. It’s really quite surreal,” he said.
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