The Titanic lies almost 4km below the ocean's surface. Movie director and submersible maker James Cameron says he wishes he had sounded the alarm earlier about the submersible Titan that imploded on an expedition to the Titanic wreckage. Read more:
Critics had said earlier its carbon fibre and titanium hull would fail over time.
When he heard, as many in the industry had shared, that OceanGate Inc was making a deep-sea submersible with a composite carbon fibre and titanium hull, Mr Cameron said he was sceptical."I wish I'd spoken up but I assumed somebody was smarter than me, you know, because I never experimented with that technology, but it just sounded bad on its face.
The US coast guard said the submersible appeared to have imploded on its expedition to the wreckage of the Titanic at the bottom of the North Atlantic, but a conclusive investigation would take time.
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