What 'Titanic' Director James Cameron Has Said About the Ship Wreckage Over the Years

Bill Paxton feared the Titanic submersible dives. In the wake of the Titanic tourist submersible tragedy, ET is looking back at its interview with the late actor back in 2003, when he admitted that he was nervous about going deep down in the ocean to see the wreckage of the famed ship.The actor, who starred in as Brock Lovett, spoke to ET ahead of the premiere of, the documentary in which director James Cameron discussed his inspiration for the film and took several people, including Paxton, on an unscripted tour of the famous wreckage.«Each dive, I had to kind of look myself in the mirror and go 'OK, are you ready for this?'» Paxton, who died in 2017, told ET at the time.

the famous shipwreck.The award-winning film, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, will be added with hundreds of others, according to HuffPost. Netflix did not return a request for comment if the company planned to add the blockbuster before the submersible’s expedition.It left the streaming platform in Aug. 2022, according to Variety. The director of the film, James Cameron, spoke out about the Titan disaster, telling BBC that he “felt in [his] bones” that an “extreme catastrophic event” took place as early as Monday morning.The Titan submersible lost contact 1 hour and 45 minutes into its voyage to the Titanic wreckage and a debris field was found days later. “For me, there was no doubt.

K.J. Yossman Like the disaster that inspired both Titan’s name and journey, last week’s submersible disaster captured the world. Millions waited with bated breath to learn the fate of the sub’s five occupants. On Friday, after a six-day search, the Coast Guard confirmed that debris from the sub consistent with a “catastrophic implosion” had been found just 1,600 feet from the wreck of the Titanic itself. In the interim, the missing sub dominated the news cycle, prompting thousands of tweets, headlines and hot takes. Before Titan had even been located, one enterprising U.K. network commissioned and aired a documentary about the sub’s deep-sea exploration to the Titanic while Netflix has faced backlash for bringing James Cameron’s 1997 feature about the original disaster back to the streaming service (sources say the timing is a coincidence).

«catastrophic implosion,» there was enthusiasm around the world after the ocean explorer provided the first photos and footage of the Titanic’s underwater grave. Speaking with ET in 1987, the Navy vet summed up his initial reaction to finding the Titanic in one word: «Relief.»«I had been pursuing that ship for 13 years,» he explained. «It was like this big piece of pressure came off my back and I was glad.»After uncovering the ship via cameras that combed the ocean floor, Ballard and his team of researchers performed multiple five-hour roundtrip dives to the Titanic the following year. «It was a pretty tough commute,» he remembered, saying that their vessel was «a very cold, cramped elevator» surrounded by 6,000 pounds of pressure that amounted to «a Cadillac car on every square inch of you.»Of course, those dangerous voyages yielded the world’s first look at the Titanic since it struck an iceberg on April 14, 1912 and 1,500 people died when it sank within hours early the next morning. «It's a very peaceful site, actually.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Among the handful of new titles arriving on Netflix on July 1 is James Cameron’s “Titanic,” an addition that is rubbing some people the wrong way given last week’s tragedy aboard the OceanGate Titan submersible. Five members traveling inside the Titan were killed when the submersible imploded while en route to visit the wreckage of the Titanic in the Atlantic Ocean. Some users on social media have criticized Netflix for bringing Cameron’s “Titanic” to the streaming platform so soon after the submersible tragedy. As one user wrote, “Netflix is overstepping the boundaries of decency on this timing.” Many people are accusing the streamer of attempting to capitalize on the Titan deaths by adding “Titanic” to its library.

In multiple interviews yesterday, Titanic director James Cameron harshly criticized the OceanGate, the company that designed, built and operated the small submarine Titan, which officials now believe suffered a “catastrophic implosion” as it dove down to tour the wreck of the Titanic. Five people were killed as a result.

Is this really the time to be defending a sub that just imploded?!

"Titanic" director James Cameron "felt in [his] bones" that an "extreme catastrophic event" had happened to the Titan submersible as soon as he heard it had lost contact. Cameron, who has traveled to the Titanic wreckage himself 33 times, said he had "no doubt" the sub was "gone" once he heard the submersible had lost contact 1 hour and 45 minutes into its dive to view the remnants of the cruise liner. The U.S.

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Titanic movie director James Cameron, who himself visited the Titanic wreckage site over 30 times, has made a statement about the tragedy on the OceanGate Titan submersible that is getting attention.

James Cameron has a great deal of experience with the difficult and potentially dangerous process of such an adventure.The wreckage site has once again gripped the public's attention after OceanGate Expeditions' tourist submersible, Titan, went missing on June 18 while carrying five passengers during a dive down to the Titanic's final resting place. Five days later, Rear Admiral John Mauger, the commander of the U.S.

Titanic (1997) director, who has completed 33 dives to the wreck of the 19th century ship, said in a new interview that he immediately suspected that disaster had struck when he received news about the missing Titan sub on Monday (June 19).Yesterday (June 22) it was confirmed that the five men aboard the submersible on a tourist expedition to view the wreckage of the Titanic died in a suspected catastrophic implosion. Five pieces of debris from the sub were discovered in a search and rescue operation.Cameron told BBC News: “We now have another wreck that is based on unfortunately the same principles of not heeding warnings.

“Titanic” director and deep sea explorer James Cameron is opening up about when he first learned that the Titan tourist submersible had likely imploded, days before debris was discovered.

Titanic director James Cameron has claimed he knew the missing OceanGate submersile had imploded and its occupants were dead on Monday.

director and deep sea explorer James Cameron is opening up about when he first learned that the Titan tourist submersible had likely imploded, days before debris was discovered.On Thursday, Rear Admiral John Mauger, the commander of the U.S. Coast Guard who lead the search and rescue operation, announced that all aboard the vessel — owned by OceanGate Expeditions — were presumed «dead» following a «catastrophic implosion» and the discovery of debris.Cameron, meanwhile, spoke with CNN's Anderson Cooper Thursday, and said he'd learned on Monday that the submersible had likely imploded, and that the five passengers had likely been killed.«I've been living with it for a few days now, as [have] some of my other colleagues in the deep submergence community,» Cameron, 68, shared.According to the filmmaker — who has spent decades as an active and avid deep sea diver, and has taken over 30 trips to the Titanic wreckage — he was on a boat by himself on Sunday when Titan undertook its ill-fated plunge.«Then the first I heard about it was on Monday morning. I immediately got on my network, because it's a very small community… and found out some information within about a half hour that they had lost comms and they had lost tracking simultaneously,» Cameron explained.

James Cameron is taking ET inside the Titanic. In the wake of the Titanic tourist submersible tragedy, ET is taking a look back at its 1997 interview with the director, when he shared footage from the 12 dives he completed as part of his research for his acclaimed film.For the passengers aboard the Titan, the submersible owned by OceanGate Expeditions, there was a «catastrophic loss of the pressure chamber» that presumably caused all aboard to die, Rear Admiral John Mauger said on Thursday.As Cameron showed ET inside the ship, he spoke about the «freezing cold water» that the wreckage resides in and the «cramped conditions» inside the submersible he took down.Cameron's decision to go to the Titanic's wreckage came after he priced out the options of creating a «perfect simulation of diving the Titanic and what's it going to cost to actually dive the Titanic,» and found that the cost wasn't all that different.«It seemed like you would get two sort of intangible benefits to the film,» he explained.

On Thursday morning, it was reported that a debris field was discovered near the shipwreck, before confirmation that all five passengers were dead following the vessel’s catastrophic implosion in the North Atlantic. With the submarine on a quest to see the Titanic, there is curiosity as to what filmmaker James Cameron thinks about the situation.

Ever since the news first came out that a submarine exploring the Titanic had been lost, one of the experts we’ve wanted to hear from most is filmmaker James Cameron.

Canadian filmmaker James Cameron, who directed the critically acclaimed ‘Titanic’, is talking about the recent Titan submersible tragedy.

James Cameron — director of the 1997 blockbuster Titanic who has visited the wreckage more than 30 times — has responded to the Titan submersible disaster.