Posted on 06/22/2023 3:42:32 PM PDT by libh8er
Filmmaker James Cameron has broken his silence on the devastating submarine implosion 200 ft from the bow of the Titanic wreck.
The director of the 1997 mega-hit movie based on the shipwreck tragedy Cameron said that the 'catastrophic implosion' of OceanGate's Titan sub reminds him of the 1912 disaster.
Speaking to ABC News he said: '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.'
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'Many people in the community were very concerned about this sub.
Cameron also said that he had spent 'more time on the ship than the captain did back on the day'.
'Some of the top players in the deep submergence engineer community even wrote letters to the company saying that what they were doing was too experimental to carry passengers and it needed to be certified and so on.
'It's a very similar tragedy where warnings went unheeded - to take place at the same exact same site with all the diving that's going on all around the world,I just think it's astonishing it's really quite surreal.
'Paul-Henri Nargeolet, legendary sub dive pilot, a friend of mine. I've known PH for 25 years and for him to have died tragically in this way is almost impossible for me to process.'
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The guy knows more about hard work and sacrificing for your dream than probably most people.
The Sub, had gone down 25 times!! the useful life of a sub like this going that deep is 2 maybe 3 dives and it is scrapped. The Hull can not handle the compression decompression cycles, and every cycle stresses the hull even more, until???
There was engineer that worked there and when he brought this they Fired Him.
Interesting and never knew that. I did know that large amounts of coal can spontaneously combust as utilities constantly turn their coal piles.
This is the third or fourth post with the term dieseling. I’ve googled it but can’t find a tie to implosion. Please explain or share a link. Thank you.
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That's a lot of stress fatigue! Aiplanes undergo rigorous examination every so often as laid out in FAA guidelines. I don't know if the sub was subject to any such. I read today that although the passengers had signed waivers the company itself can still be sued for criminal negligence.
I didnāt know that. Heās done some great stuff. Unfortunately, like Ridley Scott (another favorite) he fell a bit too much in love with CGI.
Captain Smith was the most senior officer in the White Star Line and the first voyage of the R.M.S. Titanic was to have been his last before retired. He was distracted and inattentive. The ship narrowly avoided an accidental collision when leaving port.
He was sued by Harlan Ellison, who is a major league PIA in his on right, for plagiarism. Ellison claims Cameron lifted the plot for Terminator from an Ellison screenplay on āThe Outer Limitsā.
They settled and Ellison got credit on at least the home release of the Terminator. The rest of the settlement seems to be behind a NDA. Cameron denies everything but he did settle.
I wonder if the sub hit an iceberg?..... : )
I can't find a link either, it's weird.
When a sub implodes at crush depth it's incredible y violent. The imploding hull compresses the internal atmosphere in milliseconds to a small fraction of its previous volume, creating enough heat to explosively ignite anything flammable even if there is no ignition source. Analogous to how fuel is burned in a diesel engine, by virtue of heating from the high compression ratio.
Think of it this way - a diesel engine doesnāt have spark plugs to cause ignition of the combustible mixture. It uses glow plugs and Very High compression. That alone is sufficient to cause combustion.
Sailor: There is a fire down below!
Captain: Not to worry we will have it out by the time we get to New York.
I generally like Ellison's work but the man was a bit of a nutcase. He was the grumpy old man of science fiction. The slightest resemblance to any of his work meant almost automatic litigation from him.
Want to know how twisted Ellison was? Go find the original draft of "The City on the Edge of Forever", it's WELL worth reading.
Its true, they did stop that fire.
Interesting and thank you. Appreciate it.
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A) Because his bosses at White Star lines were leaning on him to break the Atlantic crossing speed record, which had recently been set by a competitor.
B) He had been quietly informed that there was fire in the coal bin.
Reason B might have been kinda understandable if true. Reason A wouldn't have been a good reason but it would have been a "reason-reason" nonetheless.
Stockton Rush was a psychotic narcissist. Personal pride and ambition are really suck-ass reasons to lead other people to suicide, especially for a Princeton man.
One has read that the young Pakistani man really really really didn't want to go on the Titanic cruise, but dad was obsessed with the matter and was insistent. When dad says you go, one goes, if one is a good son...
It would have been his last trip, he should have done what a good Captain would do and be prudent. The graveyards of full of people who wee not prudent when they should have been, but the Captain needs to protect his passengers.
That’s why I said Ellison is a major league PIA in his own right.
Doesn’t change the fact Cameron settled, for what ever reason. Puts his “I had a dream” claim in a different light.
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