Titanic director and submersible expert James Cameron said he predicted Titan's implosion days before the debris from the missing submersible was found, call...

Titanic director and submersible expert James Cameron said he predicted Titan’s implosion days before the debris from the missing submersible was found, calling the search a ‘prolonged nightmarish charade’. Mr Cameron, who has visited the world’s most famous seawreck 30 times, said the tragedy this week has parallels with the the Titanic disaster, where the captain repeatedly ignored warnings about an incoming iceberg but carried on at top speed. A remote operated submarine from a Canadian ship found debris on the ocean floor. But search and rescue officials say the men likely died on Sunday - before military planes using sonar buoys detected what they thought could have been SOS ‘banging’ sounds in the water. The US Navy said they heard a sound consistent with an implosion when communications were lost around two hours after they dived. The Navy passed on that information to the Coast Guard, an insider said.

  • @Geek_KingEnglish
    9•2 years ago

    I wonder if some level of “Well, we’ve gone down 35 times before and it’s never imploded before!” comes into play. After a bunch of successful runs, you probably consider it a known quanity. Instead of treating it like the tiny fragile metal tube it is, I mean even air planes go through rigorous pre-flight checks to make sure every thing is up to snuff, and airplanes are substantially less dangerous then being at the depths they’d push that little sub to.