WASHINGTON, Jun 22American director James Cameron, who directed the film Titanic, said in an interview that he was shocked by the similarity in the crashes of the liner that sank in 1912 after colliding with an iceberg, and the tragedy of the Titan bathyscaphe, the wreckage of which was discovered earlier on Thursday near the ship.
“I am struck by the similarity of the Titanic disaster itself, where the captain was repeatedly warned of an iceberg ahead, and yet he rushed at full speed into the ice field, resulting in the death of many people, with a very similar tragedy when the warnings were not were accounted for in exactly the same place,” he told ABC News.
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Cameron stressed that safety and engineering issues should be a top priority when diving. “Safety is the gold standard,” added the director.
Earlier, the US Coast Guard confirmed the discovery of the wreckage of the lost bathyscaphe and informed the relatives of the crew who died in the «catastrophic» explosion. According to a spokesman for the service, the remote control device found the tail section of the Titan on the ocean floor more than 200 meters from the sunken Titanic, with the bathyscaphe «there was a catastrophic inward explosion.»
A coast guard spokesman said that deep-sea vehicles will continue to work at the site of the discovery of the wreckage to collect additional data, the timing of the continuation of the operation has not been set. Participants in the search operation acknowledge, however, that due to the depth at which the wreckage is located and the complexity of working on it, the likelihood of finding the remains of the dead is small.
The Titanic travel craft went missing on Sunday while descending to the wreckage of the Titanic, an ocean liner that sank in the North Atlantic in 1912 at a depth of 3.8 kilometers. Communication with the bathyscaphe, on board of which there were five people, disappeared less than two hours after its immersion. On board the unit, owned by the American company OceanGate Expeditions, were its founder Stockton Rush, veteran French deep-sea explorer Paul-Henri Nargeole, British billionaire and space tourist Hamish Harding, Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son Suleman.
OceanGate Expeditions advertised seven-day Titanic diving excursions starting at $250,000.
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