These are serious people with serious curiosity willing to put serious money down to go to these interesting
places,” the “Titanic” director told CNN’s Anderson Cooper. “I don’t want to discourage that. But I think that it’s
almost now a lesson.
The takeaway is, make sure if you’re gonna go into a vehicle, whether it’s an aircraft or surface craft or a
submersible, that it’s been through certifying agencies.”
Some background: Stockton Rush, the CEO of OceanGate Expeditions, which operated the Titan submersible,
and who died in the implosion, had spoken about his antipathy to regulations.
“At some point, safety just is pure waste,” Stockton told journalist David Pogue in an interview last year. “I mean,
if you just want to be safe, don’t get out of bed. Don’t get in your car. Don’t do anything.

James Cameron, director of the hit 1997 film “Titanic,” says news of the Titan submersible’s explosion “certainly
wasn’t a surprise.”
Cameron, who has made 33 dives to the wreckage himself, told CNN’s Anderson Cooper that when he first
heard the news of the Titan incident Monday morning, he connected with his small community in the deep
submergence group and found out within about a half-hour that the submersible had lost communication and
tracking, simultaneously.
“The only scenario that I could come up with in my mind that could account for that was an implosion,” he
told Cooper on Thursday. “A shockwave event so powerful that it actually took out a secondary system that
has its own pressure vessel and its own battery power supply which is the transponder that the ship uses to
track where the sub is.”
Cameron said he did more digging and got some additional information that seemed to confirm that the
submersible had imploded.
“I encouraged all of them to raise a glass in their honor on Monday,” Cameron said of his community group.
He said false-hopes kept getting dangled as search teams looked for the missing passengers over the following
days.
“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,” Cameron told Cooper.
He expressed condolences for the families of the passengers