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James Cameron is speaking retired astir rumors alleging helium is successful discussions to marque a movie astir OceanGate, astir a period aft the company's Titan submersible imploded, sidesplitting each 5 passengers.
James Cameron Speaks Out connected Titanic Sub Tragedy
James Cameron is debunking rumors that allege helium is progressive in discussions astir a potential movie about the institution that made and operated the Titan submersible.
The manager of the Oscar-winning blockbuster Titanic issued a connection connected Twitter July 15, almost a period after the tiny tourer sub from OceanGate Expeditions imploded underwater disconnected the seashore of Newfoundland portion diving to the wreckage of the celebrated Titanic ship, killing each 5 passengers, including the company's CEO, Stockton Rush.
"I don't respond to violative rumors successful the media usually, but I request to now," Cameron tweeted. "I'm NOT successful talks astir an OceanGate film, nor volition I ever be."
The Oscar winner, who has personally made 33 dives to the Titanic's wreckage, had shared his thoughts connected the submersible implosion in media interviews days pursuing the tragedy.
"I'm struck by the similarity of the Titanic catastrophe itself," Cameron told ABC News June 22, "where the skipper was repeatedly warned astir crystal up of his vessel and yet helium steamed astatine afloat velocity into an crystal tract connected a moonless night—and galore radical died arsenic a result."
Noting the deep-sea exploration assemblage had concerns astir the information of the Titan sub earlier the tragedy, the Avatar manager continued, "For a precise akin tragedy, wherever warnings went unheeded, to instrumentality spot astatine the aforesaid nonstop tract with each the diving that's going connected each astir the world, I deliberation it's conscionable astonishing. It's truly rather surreal."
Ocean Gate / Handout/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images; Kevin Winter/Getty Images
The manager besides told CNN, "Here's a lawsuit starkly, today, wherever the collective, we didn't retrieve the acquisition of Titanic—these guys astatine OceanGate didn't." He added, "I conscionable deliberation it's heartbreaking that it was truthful preventable."
Earlier this month, OceanGate's social media accounts were scrubbed and its website was changed to read, "OceanGate has suspended each exploration and commercialized operations."
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