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James Cameron breaks silence on deadly Titanic Five sub disaster and says it reminds him of Titanic sinking because the 'captain was repeatedly warned' but 'steamed full-speed ahead'
Daily Mail ^ | 6.22.2023 | Emma James

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.'

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


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To: 1Old Pro

I didn’t say it was a good reason.


61 posted on 06/23/2023 6:05:33 AM PDT by OKSooner ("Oh, the mad fools!")
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To: OKSooner
I didn’t say it was a good reason.

LOL, it rests on the Captain, not you :)

62 posted on 06/23/2023 6:06:43 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Honest Nigerian

Just because it’s a bad idea doesn’t mean it would not be fun!

Right?


63 posted on 06/23/2023 6:24:46 AM PDT by JackFromTexas (- Not For Hire -)
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To: JustaTech; Mean Daddy

There’s a wikipedia article:

Dieseling or engine run-on is a condition that can occur in spark-plug-ignited, gasoline-powered internal combustion engines, whereby the engine keeps running for a short period after being turned off, drawing fuel through the carburetor, into the engine and igniting it without a spark.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieseling


64 posted on 06/23/2023 7:12:41 AM PDT by quilterdebbie (We will endeavor to persevere!)
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To: Jonty30

Some rich people are incredibly dumb.


65 posted on 06/24/2023 1:04:43 AM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots. )
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