“Titanic” director James Cameron spoke out during an ABC News interview about the tourist submersible Titan that lost contact on its way to reach the wreck of the famous passenger liner.
After submarine company OceanGate released a statement on Thursday saying that the five people who went down are believed dead, Cameron gave his thoughts on the tragedy as a longtime member of the diving community, who has made 33 trips to the Titanic himself.
“People in the community were very concerned about this sub,” Cameron said. “A number of the top players in the deep submergence engineering community even wrote letters to the company, saying that what they were doing was too experimental to carry passengers and that it needed to be certified. 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...
After submarine company OceanGate released a statement on Thursday saying that the five people who went down are believed dead, Cameron gave his thoughts on the tragedy as a longtime member of the diving community, who has made 33 trips to the Titanic himself.
“People in the community were very concerned about this sub,” Cameron said. “A number of the top players in the deep submergence engineering community even wrote letters to the company, saying that what they were doing was too experimental to carry passengers and that it needed to be certified. 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...
- 6/22/2023
- by Manori Ravindran and William Earl
- Variety Film + TV
Using deep-sea mapping, a team of scientists has created an “exact ‘Digital Twin’ of the Titanic wreck for the first time,” revealing never-before-seen views of the luxury passenger liner that tragically sunk after being struck by an iceberg while sailing from South Hampton, England, to New York in April 1912.
The disaster has long concerned the minds of researchers and historians believe that this new 3-D scan, 111 years after the Titanic’s infamous sinking, may provide some answers to the lingering questions surrounding the shipwreck that killed more than 1,500 people.
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“It allows you to see the wreck as you can never see it from a submersible,” a Titanic analyst, Parks Stephenson, told the BBC. “You can see the wreck in its entirety, you can see it in context and perspective,” he said of the Titanic that was discovered in 1985 resting 12,500 feet down in the Atlantic.
The disaster has long concerned the minds of researchers and historians believe that this new 3-D scan, 111 years after the Titanic’s infamous sinking, may provide some answers to the lingering questions surrounding the shipwreck that killed more than 1,500 people.
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“It allows you to see the wreck as you can never see it from a submersible,” a Titanic analyst, Parks Stephenson, told the BBC. “You can see the wreck in its entirety, you can see it in context and perspective,” he said of the Titanic that was discovered in 1985 resting 12,500 feet down in the Atlantic.
- 5/20/2023
- by Nicky Kashani
- Uinterview
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