It’s clear that OceanGate “shouldn’t have been doing what it was doing,” said James Cameron, who likened Sunday's deadly dive of the Titan submersible to the Titanic disaster itself.
and OceanGate’s experimental approach, he said on Thursday, lamenting that the company had ignored experts’ calls to undergo a standard certification process.
Cameron stressed that deep submergence diving is “a mature art,” with very few accidents when it began in the 1960s and an even better safety record now, thanks in large part to the certification protocols that almost all such vehicles follow — except this one., adding that he had declined an invitation from CEO Stockton Rush to go diving with them this season.
He said he immediately made some calls to his network and found out within about half an hour that the Titan had lost communications and tracking simultaneously. Later that day, Cameron got more information “that was probably of a military origin, although it could have been research” suggesting there had been some sort of loud noise on Sunday consistent with that of an implosion.
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