ABC News’ Phil Lipof spoke with “Titanic” film director James Cameron and Robert Ballard, the first person to locate the Titanic wreckage, as the search for the missing sub comes to a tragic end.
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DOCTOR!!!! Robert D Ballard you insignifiCUNT twurp!
he'll cast rihanna when he does this
Much respect to these 2 for the respect to the family. And to hear James Cameron and th Bob Ballard as an expert on this subject is a treat.
They went down there in a toy. Complete madness.
As James Cameron stated here, and I am paraphrasing "people should never have to be worried about the craft or vessel that they are in, but more worried about entanglement and danger on the dive".
This is what happens when you let diversity hires build your stuff and ignore real engineers
I guess you could say that The Titanic "crashed" on the sea floor.🤷♂️ After it sunk anyway.
It’s a French Canadian ROV not French, who found the debris and Knew exactly where to go. French Canadians.
Having an ROV on sight for any future deep sea dives is a really good idea 🫶🏻
Wondering if there'll be a movie on this tragedy (albeit from James Cameron).
Just my own opinion stop this tourist destination going down to Titanic. There are 1500 souls buried in that ocean and that’s their burial ground and give respect to those souls. Now there’s a new 5 souls that join the 1500 souls that forever Rest In Peace rather resting in that Newfoundland. Stop this greedy business, souls that are buried there don’t want to be bothered unless you want another souls that will get lost in that deep ocean.
May God give them eternal Rest In Peace.
People in these comments are forgetting that James Cameron isn’t just a film director, nor just an expert in this field. Many would argue he is THE expert in this field. This man holds world records for diving in submersibles he built with his engineering team.
Never fool with working designs. See "square airplane windows (BOAC). They don't work. Stress fractures.
It was made for disaster.
It was clearly highly competitive, to succeed in building a sub/submersible to go down to view Titanic. I have a feeling that Stockton was very competitive and perhaps he saw warnings from others as attempts to interfere with his goal and successes. In letters to him, experts had stated that the OceanGate submersible, with all its known faults/weaknesses, impacted on them and looked bad for their businesses and their reputations, so maybe that caused him to push harder, to prove them wrong and become the victor, the winner. It's all very tragic and I feel so sad for the families and the men that lost their lives, especially the young man, whose life out in the big world, was really just beginning. It's happened, can't change that now, and just so relieved that the end was very quick. The main thing now is to make sure it can't happen again.
They should have consulted James Cameron before going down there anyway. He doesnt just make movies he is a mechanical engineering genius who has travelled in the Challenger submarine.
"We knew today would be the day it would be confirmed " …🤔
what if they faked their deaths
Stockton conned / lied,plied his rich passengers to feed his addiction in breaking the rules of engineering! He should have had no passengers till he was certified to carry them! So selfish with other peoples lives!
I used to look at James Cameron as a bit of an opportunist when it came to the Titanic but he really does know his stuff and like all of us is truly appalled by this tragedy
Is it just me or does Cameron sound a touch sanctimonious? We could wait for the gov’t to throw billions of dollars at a project. Oh, wait, we did that but the Challenger blew up and killed all including a “tourist”, our only teacher, woman and civilian.
It sunk not crashed
I agree with James about the captain he was on the sister ship when it. was hit by another ship
James Cameron has been to the bottom of the Mariana Trench by himself in his submersible. He knows what he talking about.
This incident is like a traditional 'life art' continuation of the Titanic incident mystery involving the novel template: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wreck_of_the_Titan:_Or,_Futility and secondarily relation to the Lusitania sinking.
Even the fact that the company is called "OceanGate", following traditional scandal naming jargon, is prompting us to look at the potentially scary bigger picture here.
Amazing how so many people are here commenting on this crap when 600 migrants died on the Mediterranean sea the same week and no one bats an eye at that. Its hotrible that these guys died yes, however these people were morons for going in this minivan sized piece of scrapmetal, you can't pay me $250k to go in this sub. The migrants were in search of literal survival and only 20 of them survived 78 dead and the other 500 or so were never found so they were presumed dead. Were the 600 migrants lives not as important as these 5 billionaires?
Like going down in a cardboard insert of a toilet roll, comparing that to a steel insert. No contest. James Cameron said it perfectly. His doco is worth a watch on his sub to the Mariana Trench. He knows his subs.
5 deaths of rich people are being investigated at highest level but no one is raising voice for hundreds of deaths of poor people in Greek. With less than 1% of titan saving efforts, hundreds of poor people would have been saved. Unjust world. 😞
Two great guys that care. Both are professional.
This was sterling. Thank you.
I appreciate all the experts engineers providing context, but I just don’t need it!!! I saw the news interview that showed the consent form/disclaimer, the Home Depot lights and the game controller. For me that was enough that they were totally doomed!!!
I really hope people are just about done talking about this sad story. There is nothing left to say at this point.
5 rich people decided to risk their lives diving to the depths of the north Atlantic.
Their choice.
Their money.
Their risk.
Their signature.
(Personally, I'd rather be incarcerated)
And, it didn't work out.
Most people would decline to do it.
I'm just not sure what all the talking us about.
Lesson learned.
Yes Mrs Cameron the hard part for the flails was not the deaths, but the false hope of banging noises.
Money is the reason. Stupidity is the excuse. This reporter is a moron.
So why didn't this fool stop the submarine, inform the coast guard and all the news channels to stop it?
Two experts telling it like it is and an uncommonly respectful interviewer letting them talk, nicely done.