He drew parallels to the 1912 ocean liner sinking in which around 1,500 people died. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Mr Cameron – who in 2012 became the first person to make a solo dive to the very deepest part of the ocean, in a submersible he designed and built – said the risk of a sub imploding under pressure was always “first and foremost” in engineers’ minds.
“That’s the nightmare that we’ve all lived with” since entering the field of deep exploration, he said, pointing to the sector’s very strong safety record over recent decades.“A number of the top players in the deep-submergence engineering community even wrote letters to the company, saying that what they were doing was too experimental to carry passengers, and that it needed to be certified.”“It’s a very small community. I’ve known PH for 25 years.
“I know the wreck site very well... I actually calculated that I spent more time on the ship than the captain did back in the day,” he said. Mr Cameron has also directed underwater disaster movie “The Abyss”, and multiple deep-sea documentaries. AFP
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