Ross Kemp turned down a trip on the OceanGate submersible in fear of safety.
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser thatHe explained: ‘I immediately got on the phone to some of my contacts in the deep submersible community. Within about an hour I had the following facts. They were on descent. They were at 3500 metres, heading for the bottom at 3800 metres.
Cameron continued: ‘This entire week has felt like a prolonged and nightmarish charade where people are running around talking about banging noises and talking about oxygen and all this other stuff, and their coastguard is out with airplanes. He added: ‘We now have another wreck that is based on unfortunately the same principles of not heeding warnings.’supports HTML5 video
He also said it was a ‘terrible irony’ in the loss of Titan and its crew, comparing it again to the loss of the Titanic in 1912, which led to the deaths of more than 1,500 people.
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