James Cameron regrets not having sounded the alarm sooner about the titan submarinethe ship whose crew members died on their way to explore the remains of the Titanic, whose sinking is the focus of one of the filmmaker’s most famous films.

The director, who is also a submersible builder and began exploring the deep sea when preparing the Oscar-winning film, has now shared that he was skeptical about building a deep-sea submarine with a carbon fiber and titanium hull. “I thought that was a horrible idea”has acknowledged, in statements to Reuters.

“I wish I had said what was on my mindbut I assumed that someone was smarter than me, because I have never experimented with that technology, but I just sounded bad“added the director, who, although for the moment it has not been determined what caused the implosionof the ship, coincides with the critics who warned about the problems that the hull materials could cause.

After learning that the US Navy detected the sound of an underwater implosion on Sunday that could be that of the Titan, Cameron has indicated that his sources had similar information and that he knew that the submersible was missing from the beginning of the search, suspecting that it imploded when lost communication an hour and 45 minutes after beginning the mission.

“We had confirmation within an hour that there had been a strong ‘bang’ at the same time that communications from the submarine were lost,” he said. “I knew what had happened. The submarine imploded,” Cameron has indicated, adding that he already sent an email on Monday in which he already indicated: “We have lost some friends” and “it is in pieces at the bottom right now.”

The five deceased crew members, he also highlighted, are the first deaths in deep water for the industry, whose standard is to make hulls with contiguous materials such as steel, titanium, ceramic or acrylic, which are better for testing, according to the filmmaker.

“We celebrate innovation, right? But an experimental passenger vehicle should not be used who pay and who are not themselves deep water engineers”, he criticized.

The similarity with the Titanic

The director of ‘Titanic’ has also stressed that the tragedies of the ocean liner and the Titan were preceded by disregarded warnings. In the case of the Titanic, the captain sped across the Atlantic on a moonless night despite icebergs. “Here we are again. And in the same place. Now there’s a wreck next to another wreck for the same damn reason“, he lamented.

Along the same lines, Cameron has highlighted the “similarity” with the Titanic case also in an interview with ‘ABC News’. “It catches my attention the similarity with the Titanic disaster itselfin which the captain was warned repeatedly about the presence of ice in front of his ship and, nevertheless, he went at full speed towards an icy area”, has affected.

“It is a very similar tragedy in the same place. It is amazing and really surreal. (…) It is a nightmare that has passed through the back of all our minds at some point,” he added, stressing that “many people ” they had shown their concern for the company Ocean Gate Expeditions because “what they were doing was too experimental and needed to be certified.”

In his statements, Cameron has indicated that he was a “friend” of the French pilot Paul-Henri Nargeolet, one of the passengers of the Titan, whom he had known for 25 years and expressed that a death “in such a tragic way is almost impossible to process “.