“Titan” tragedy: James Cameron mourns longtime friend

Director James Cameron (68) mourns the victims of the “Titan” tragedy. The submersible probably imploded in the Atlantic last Sunday. US media previously reported that debris had been found near the wreck of the Titanic, which lies at a depth of 3,800 meters. The five men on board the “Titan”, who wanted to undertake an expedition to the wreck of the passenger liner that sank in 1912 in the submersible, had no chance of survival.

, many people in the community were “very concerned about this submarine”, the company had been warned. The filmmaker added he was “shocked by the resemblance to the ‘Titanic’ disaster itself, where the captain was repeatedly warned of ice ahead of his ship and yet, on a moonless night, he drove at full speed into an ice field, killing many people died.” For all the dives around the world to have had a very similar tragedy, with warnings ignored, in exactly the same spot was “really quite surreal,” Cameron said.

James Cameron mourns the loss of a longtime friend

Cameron apparently knew one of the men who died in the “Titan” accident for a long time. Paul-Henri Nargeolet (77), one of the leading experts on the “Titanic” wreck, is a friend of his, Cameron said. “It’s a very small community. I’ve known him for 25 years. The fact that he died in such a tragic way is hard to come to terms with.”

James Cameron has made 33 dives to the Titanic wreck. He not only directed the famous 1997 film about the ship, which sank after colliding with an iceberg on its maiden voyage in 1912, but also the documentary Ghosts of the Abyss. Cameron’s Hollywood film about the tragedy, starring Kate Winslet (47) and Leonardo DiCaprio (48), won eleven Oscars and grossed over two billion US dollars worldwide.