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James Cameron says the Titan passengers probably knew the submersible was in trouble (www.npr.org)
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The Titanic director has made 33 dives to the shipwreck and visited ocean depths in a submersible he built himself. He compares OceanGate to the Titanic in that both ignored safety warnings.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Damn, I didn't realize Ja knew so much about materials science.

[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago

Apparently he built the sub he used to go to the titanic and into the Mariana trench. Dude must be intimately familiar with this sort of thing with that experience.