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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Perfect analogy...
Reverse psychology?
Some people can’t admit that their big idea is a bad idea?
It was an interesting interview, and he made many valid technical points. He said his submersible spent three years in computer design and analysis before they began construction.
The man was a fool. He still could have made lots of money going down 2000 or 3000 feet and mapped out shipwrecks. He might have even, over the course of his business, found unclaimed shipwrecks that had unclaimed gold.
He was an Icarius in every sense of the word.
A polite “we told you so” from the Director.
Stockton Rush was a fool while James Cameron wasn't.
The CEO of Oceangate sleeps with fishes.
Kind of like going ahead with Avatar 2.
Looking at his films he obviously has a methodical mind and obsessive attention to detail.
He said he didn’t need any middle-aged honkeys working for him (who’d know their ass from a hole in the wall). Well, he showed us !
The CEO’s mysterious lasts word... Roseglub!
It’s sad people died of course.
I have just a passing interest in Titanic. But, have seen some TV shows, with some incredible photography, apparently done by drone or robotic devices.
It’s hard to imagine that sending people into such a dangerous environment, would give us better pictures or knowledge.
🤣
There was a relatively small margin of safety in the best scenario. Normal operation was taking the sub into the red zone. And apparently their technical expertise was based on ‘girl power’.
So it imploded at depth in milliseconds and they never knew what made them fish food. Probably wasn’t enough collapsed volume to support dieseling, not that it matters.
Building a Sub from Recycling is bad because recycling is renamed garbage
(’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.’)
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2016%3A18&version=KJV
In this case, literally.
It’s a sad metaphor for several CEOs these days
And they created a new shipwreck for the visitors to the Titanic to view, smaller but with its own stories. I read about the 19 year old passenger’s aunt in Amsterdam who said her nephew was terrified of the whole trip, but went along because his billionaire father wanted him to join him. Sorry, but I can see excellent photographs of the Titanic online without going to the site itself.
And producing “Terminator Dark Fate”
Fortunately, I’ve only seen a few clips on YouTube
Then, I escaped in a balloon
I was one of the lucky ones 😅
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