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Hollywood director James Cameron, who directed the 1997 film Titanic, has said that he experienced the loss of the submarine Titan very close to his heart. He himself dived 33 times to the wreck of the Titanic.
The Titan submarine, which disappeared on June 18, is believed to have exploded, prompting the ship's operator, OceanGate, to say on June 22 that all five passengers aboard the submarine are believed to be dead, according to the ship's operator, OceanGate.
In an interview with the British broadcaster BBC, Cameron said that some people within the diving community had written a letter to OceanGate saying they believed, in Cameron's words, that the company was "heading for disaster".
Cameron also suggested that there was a "terrible irony" in the loss of the Titan and its crew, comparing it to the loss of the Titanic itself in 1912.
"Now we have another debacle that is unfortunately based on the same principles of not heeding warnings," he said. "OceanGate was warned".
He said that many people had been laid off from the company, but he did not specify why.
Cameron is not the first to raise concerns about the activities of the OceanGate tourism company.
A letter sent to OceanGate by the Marine Technology Society (MTS) in March 2018 and obtained by the New York Times stated that “the current 'experimental' approach adopted by OceanGate...could lead to negative results (from minor to catastrophic) ".
US court documents also show that a former OceanGate employee warned of potential security problems as early as 2018.
The documents show that David Lochridge, the company's director of marine operations, raised concerns in an inspection report.
An OceanGate spokesman declined to comment on the security issues raised by Lochridge and MTS.
Cameron said he was on a ship on Sunday when the submarine went missing and did not learn of its disappearance until Monday.
When he learned that the submarine had lost navigation and communication at the same time, he said he immediately suspected a disaster.
"I felt in my body what had happened. If the submarine's electronics, its communications system and its tracking transponder fail simultaneously — the submarine is lost," Cameron said, adding that "you can lose communications and navigation together without an extreme catastrophic event."
He said it immediately occurred to him that there might have been an explosion.
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