On Thursday , Titanicdirector and deep - immersion Internet Explorer James Cameron appeared on CNN , where he explained when he first believe theTitansubmersible had go off .
On Thursday, theUS Coast Guardannounced that all five passengers in theTitansubmersible that went missing near theTitanicshipwreck site were presumed dead after an implosion.
For James Cameron, theTitanicfilm director and deep-submergence explorer, the Coast Guard’s statement confirmed what he’d suspected earlier this week.
James spoke with Anderson Cooper about theTitansubmersible onCNNThursday night and revealed that on Monday, he started to believe that it had imploded.
Thoughthe submersible went missing Sunday, James said he was on a ship at the time and didn’t hear about it until Monday morning. He then contacted his contacts in the deep-submergence community and began hypothesizing that an implosion might have occurred based on the information he was receiving.
Later on Monday, James said he got confirmation of “some kind of loud noise consistent with an implosion event.”
“Then I watched over the ensuing days this whole sort of ‘everybody running around with their hair on fire' search, knowing full well that it was futile — hoping against hope that I was wrong, but knowing in my bones that I wasn’t,” he continued.
Given his presumed understanding of the implosion days ago, James also noted that he feels “terrible” for the families who experienced “false hopes” during the search and rescue efforts.
It’s worth noting that James clarified to Anderson that the information he received earlier this week was from “credible sources” but was “hearsay.”
Earlier on Thursday, James also appeared onABC News, where he compared theTitansubmersible catastrophe to theTitanicwreckage.
Watch James’s interview with Anderson on CNN below:
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