Last June we witnessed one of the most overwhelming tragedies of recent times: the Titan submersible, owned by the maritime tourism company OceanGate, imploded and caused the instantaneous death of its five crew members. Almost a minute of horror in which the five were aware of what was happening and in complete darkness, until their instant sudden death.
A tragedy about which there has been much speculation, since it is difficult to get an idea of what the victims were able to experience at that time. Many experts, calculations and those who already venture that it could become one of the great movie stories, that only one man could bring to the big screen: James Cameron, director of the Oscar-winning Titanic and the man who has gone down to the most times the famous ocean liner.
The filmmaker has made more than thirty dives to see the remains of the sunken ocean liner that are already part of his Oscar-winning film, but in the face of such rumors about the possibility that he is the one who directs the story that portrays the Titan tragedy, he has had to come out of the way, and emphatically.
The director, who in 2012 broke the record for submersion and depth in the ocean, spoke emphatically on Twitter, making it clear that he would never make a film of this caliber.
"I don't usually respond to offensive rumors in the media, but I need to do it now. I am not in negotiations for a movie about OceanGate, nor will I ever be," the filmmaker wrote on his public Twitter profile. Cameron takes for granted the rumors that place him as the ideal candidate to direct the story, as some media such as the Daily Mail have already published on his pages.
The director of the Avatar saga avoided speaking out during the search for the submersible, but he did do so after confirming the horrible outcome. "We have never seen an accident like this. There have never been casualties at these depths and there have never been any implosions," he told the British channel BBC.
According to Cameron, it was a completely unusual accident, so everything about the search was a complete hoax.
"You cannot lose communications and navigation at the same time without a catastrophic incident having occurred. The first thing that came to my mind was an implosion," said the director, who considered that all the searches and giving hope to public opinion and the families of the victims of the families only continued the "farce".
A nightmare story that, ironically, resembles that of the Titanic that has been submerged so many times to investigate. "OceanGate was warned," Cameron said, stating that experts had alerted OceanGate to warn them that the Titan's voyage was on track to become a "catastrophe": "I would never have designed a passenger-carrying vehicle without having certified it."
