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James Cameron says the Titan passengers probably knew the submersible was in trouble (www.npr.org)

submitted 1 year ago by SpacemanSpiff@kbin.social to c/news@kbin.social

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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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[–] PabloDiscobar@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I pulled an extract of the article. The extract doesn't say that he built the sub, he is educated on the subject, that's it.

[–] rusticus@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

It's not clear what you are trying to say. He obviously funded it and piloted it and had to be intimately involved in its construction, including oversight and planning. He took the thing down to the bottom of the Mariana Trench. Are you arguing that he doesn't know as much about the construction of the sub as a guy welding a joint or tightening a bolt? I'm pretty sure that most people would say that if you could name one person that "built" the sub it would be him. He is arguably the world's expert on this topic.