00:00Oscar-winning Titanic director James Cameron is weighing in on the Titan's submersible tragedy
00:05that appeared to have claimed the lives of four passengers and its pilot while on a Titanic expedition.
00:11While speaking to ABC News, Cameron said he was struck by the similarity of the tragedy to the Titanic disaster
00:17and noted how many people had actually raised concerns about the sub and how what they were doing was too experimental.
00:23I'm struck by the similarity of the Titanic disaster itself, where the captain was repeatedly warned about ice ahead of his ship.
00:34He continued, and yet he steamed at full speed into an ice field on a moonless night and many died as a result.
00:41Cameron noted he's a submersible designer himself and that he understands the challenges of making such a craft work safely and successfully
00:48and defended the practice of deep-sea dives as a whole.
00:52It's absolutely critical for people to really get the take-home message from this, from our effort here, is deep submergence diving is a mature art.
01:04The safety record is the gold standard, absolutely. Not only fatalities, but no accidents.
01:09Of course, what happened to the Titan is the nightmare that we've all lived with. We've lived with it in the back of our minds.
01:15Speaking to BBC News, Cameron added that he knew the sub was doomed soon after the news of it vanishing first broke.
01:22I 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.
01:32Cameron's 1997 box office hit Titanic heavily showcased footage of the actual wreck site and the use of submersibles to explore the remains of the ship.
01:41The U.S. Coast Guard said Thursday the missing sub imploded during its dive near the wreckage site and that all five aboard were killed instantly.
01:48The assessment was based on a search and rescue team finding debris from the Titan on the ocean floor.
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