“Titanic” director James Cameron is speaking out after the search for the missing OceanGate Titan submersible came to a devastating end Thursday.
Cameron, 68, found the tragic story of the sub eerily similar to what happened to the doomed ship Titanic in 1912.
“Well, I’ve been down there many times,” Cameron told ABC News on Thursday. “I’ve made 33 dives and I’ve actually calculated that I’ve spent more time on the ship than the captain did back in the day.”
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James Cameron has visited the Titanic ruins 33 times. (Getty Images)
“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,” Cameron told the outlet.
“And for a very similar tragedy, where warnings went unheeded, to take place at the same exact site, with all the diving that’s going on all around the world, I think is just astonishing. It’s really quite surreal,” he concluded.
The U.S. Coast Guard confirmed Thursday that a debris field is the missing Titanic tourist submersible that was carrying five passengers. All five on board are presumed dead.
The 1997 movie “Titanic,” written and directed by James Cameron, starred Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. (Getty Images)
Cameron released the National Geographic documentary, “Titanic: 25 Years Later,” in February. The documentary addressed the controversial theory that Leonardo DiCaprio’s character, Jack, could have survived by climbing onto Rose’s (Kate Winslet) door in the middle of the freezing waters.
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Cameron’s “Titanic” grossed $600.78 million during its initial run in the late ‘90s.
