James Cameron, the director of the 1997 film Titanic, has commented on the deaths of the five people who were onboard the tourist submersible Titan. | via philstarlife
disaster itself, where the captain was repeatedly warned about ice ahead of his ship, and yet he steamed at full speed into an ice field on a moonless night. And many people died as a result,” he expressed.
"You'd have another sub there that could help you manage the problem. We always felt that we were pretty safe ground. This sub had no backup. It didn't have a lot of backup systems from what I understand. And it was predicated on what I think of as a fundamentally flawed design principle which is carbon fiber hull," he said, adding that the sub should be made of a"contiguous material like steel or titanium.
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