Titanic director and renowned deep-sea explorer James Cameron said many warnings were ignored about the safety of the tourist submersible that imploded near the famous shipwreck, killing five people. | News24Arts
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"I think he was asked about a similar risk and he said, 'Look, if something happens at that depth, it will be catastrophic in a matter of microseconds.' "I'm struck by the similarity of the Titanic 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," Cameron told ABC News.
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.
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