James Cameron claims he ‘predicted outcome of Titan submersible’ and even ‘felt it in my bones’-Meghna Amin-Entertainment – Metro

Titanic director and submersible expert James Cameron has claimed he predicted Titan’s fate days before the debris from the missing submersible was found.

On Thursday, a US Coast Guard spokesperson said that debris found in the search for the submersible Titan, which went missing after a dive to Titanic wreck, was ‘consistent with the catastrophic loss of the pressure chamber’.

It was announced that all five of the individuals, including British billionaire Hamish Harding, Shahzada Dawood, a British-Pakistani businessman, and his son, on the submersible were believed to have died.

OceanGate said in a statement: ‘Our hearts are with these five souls and every member of their families during this tragic time. We grieve the loss of life and joy they brought to everyone they knew.’

Cameron has now told BBC News he predicted the outcome of the ill-fated submersible days before the news was confirmed.

‘I felt in my bones what had happened,’ he said.

‘I felt in my bones what happened’ (Picture: ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP via Getty Images)

‘For the sub’s electronics to fail and its communication system to fail, and its tracking transponder to fail simultaneously – sub’s gone.

‘I knew that sub was sitting exactly underneath its last known depth and position. That’s exactly where they found it.’

He added: ‘(It) 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.

‘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.

‘We now have another wreck that is based on unfortunately the same principles of not heeding warnings.’

All five onboard the Titan are believed to have died (Picture: AP)

Debris from the Titan was found during the search (Picture: OceanGate Expeditions/AFP via Getty Images)

This comes after the renowned director of the 1997 movie compared the tragedy to the ‘Titanic disaster itself’.

The film director said that he was ‘struck by the similarity of the Titanic disaster itself’, when the captain of the ship ‘was repeatedly warned about ice ahead of his ship’, but still ‘steamed at full speed into an ice field on a moonless night’, resulting in hundreds of deaths.

‘For a very similar tragedy, where warnings went unheeded, to take place at the same exact site, with all the diving that’s going on all around the world, I think it’s just astonishing. It’s really quite surreal,’ he told ABC News.

It comes as the US Navy said they heard a sound consistent with an implosion when communications were lost.

The US Navy went back and analysed its acoustic data and found an anomaly that was ‘consistent with an implosion or explosion in the general vicinity of where the Titan submersible was operating when communications were lost’, a senior Navy official told The Associated Press on Thursday.

The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive acoustic detection system.

The Navy passed on that information to the Coast Guard, which continued its search because the Navy did not consider the data to be definitive.

The US Coast Guard confirmed the tail cone of the deep-sea vessel was discovered around 1,600 ft from the bow of the Titanic wreckage during a press conference in Boston.

Rear Admiral John Mauger said further debris was also found, in the North Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Newfoundland, that was ‘consistent with a catastrophic loss of the pressure chamber’.

BBC Breakfast airs weekdays from 6am on BBC One.

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