UPDATED:TitanicfilmmakerJames Cameronspoke out Thursday aboutthe loss of the Titan submarinethat had dived to explore the historic shipwreck.
And many people died as a result.
I think its just astonishing.
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Its really quite surreal.
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The multiple Oscar winner and longtime ocean-diving enthusiast has made nearly three dozen dives to the Titanic wreckage.
Cameron also addressed the concerns voiced by experts about thesafetyof the 21-footTitan.
[Thats] more time than between Kitty Hawk and the flight of the first 747.
The wreckage was found in 1985 and inspired diving enthusiast Cameron to makeTitanic.
The epic went on to win 11 Oscars and gross more than $2.26 billion worldwide.
4 on the latter list.
Cameron said that the achilles heel of the sub was the composite cylinder, made of carbon fiber.
It is pretty clear that is what failed.
The question is, was that the primary failure or secondary failure?
He said that the use of composites was aviation thinking for a deep submergence engineering problem.
The Titanic was the Mount Everest of shipwrecks, and as a diver I wanted to do it right.
I loved that first taste, and I wanted more.
