James Cameron, who directed the hit film “Titanic”, released in 1997, and has already made 33 dives to the ship’s wreckage, said he sees some similarities between the implosion of the submersible Titan and the famous sinking.
“I am struck by the similarity of the Titanic disaster itself, where the captain was repeatedly warned of ice ahead of his ship and yet he sailed full speed across an ice field on a moonless night and many people died as a result. ”, said Cameron to ABC News this Thursday (22).
“And with a very similar tragedy, where warnings were ignored, and which happened to occur in the same exact location, even with so many dives happening across the world, I think it’s just astounding. It’s really surreal,” she added.
The United States Coast Guard confirmed the death of passengers on the submarine Titan, which had been missing since Monday (19) after diving on an expedition to the sinking of the Titanic. The wreckage of the submersible found this Thursday (22) indicates that there was a catastrophic loss of cabin pressure.
The vessel was carrying five occupants: British businessman and adventurer Hamish Harding, French diver Paul-Henri Nargeolet, Pakistani businessman Shahzada Dawood and his son Sulaiman Dawood, as well as the CEO and founder of OceanGate, owner of the submersible, Stockton Rush.
The expedition started with a 740 kilometer journey to the Titanic wreck site. The submersible began its descent on Sunday (18) morning, but lost contact with the crew of the Polar Prince, the support vessel that transported the vessel to the site, 1 hour and 45 minutes after the descent, according to authorities.
The Coast Guards of the United States and Canada began a real war operation to rescue the Titan, up to 10 ships and aircraft were mobilized for the searches, first on the surface of the sea, then in the depths.
Sonars, ROVs (aquatic drones) and high-tech equipment were made available to carry out the mission.
Security
There was no shortage of accusations about alleged negligence with the safety of the submersible. Rush himself has stated, in several interviews, that he saw protection schemes as inhibiting innovation and technological advancement.
The subversive commercial industry is “obscenely safe,” he said in an interview with Smithsonian Magazine in 2019, “because they have all these regulations. But it also hasn’t innovated or grown – because they have all these regulations.”
As the world began to follow the drama of the submersible’s occupants, it also came to know somewhat bizarre stories about the operation of the vehicle.
On Tuesday, The New York Times reported that in 2018 submersible industry leaders criticized OceanGate’s “experimental approach.” The Marine Technology Society’s Manned Underwater Vehicles Committee wrote a letter to Rush, expressing concern over the company’s compliance with a marine risk assessment certification known as the DNV-GL.
Source: CNN Brasil

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