The whole world is shocked by the tragedy of the Titan, the missing submarine in which five people were traveling to see the Titanic wreck, an experience that filmmaker James Cameron survived.
The director of the film that bears the same name as the ship that sank in 1912 and killed more than 1,500 people, has traveled 33 times to the bottom of the ocean to study and admire the considered ‘unsinkable.’ However, there was one expedition from which he thought he would not return.
James Cameron Was Trapped in a Submarine
James Cameron’s taste for the deep sea was nourished by his film starring Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio. The director felt that: “Titanic was the Mount Everest of shipwrecks, and as a diver, I wanted to get it right.” In other words, the romantic story we all know is only the result of a desire, a pretext to go on this adventure.
“When I heard that other guys had dived on the Titanic to make an IMAX movie, I said, ‘I’ll make a Hollywood movie to pay for an expedition and do the same thing.’ I loved that first taste, and I wanted more,” he confessed in an interview for Playboy. Since that day, the director of Avatar, aware of the risk of traveling to the bottom of the ocean, descended so many times to see the wreckage of the Titanic, until he accumulated 33 expeditions.
In 2012, something terrible happened. An ocean current affected the filmmaker’s plans, causing him to get trapped for 16 hours in the submarine. “There are water currents down there. James Cameron has gone down 33 times, and a current of water trapped them against the stern of the Titanic; they were there for 19 hours until the water was diverted because they could not get out,” detailed the Mexican influencer Alan x el Mundo, who recently went aboard the Titan to see the wreck.
Titanic Was Not Enough for James Cameron
In March 2022, the director descended into the Challenger Abyss, the deepest point in the ocean, which is located at a depth of almost 11 kilometers, a huge difference from the area where the wreckage of the ‘unsinkable’ is located (3,800 meters deep). This area where Cameron dived is known as the Mariana Trench. During the expedition, the filmmaker took the opportunity to document on video everything he observed.
James Cameron Compares the Titanic Case with the Titan Submarine
The director of Terminator considered that the Titanic case has several similarities with the Titan tragedy, in which the United States has already declared the five crew members dead. “The similarity with the Titanic disaster itself, where the captain was repeatedly warned of ice ahead of his ship and yet he sped into an ice field on a moonless night and many people died as a result,” Cameron said in an interview for ABC News.
A Curse?
Some users on social networks consider that these ‘failed’ attempts to go down to the depths of the ocean to see the remains of the Titanic, derive from a ‘curse.’ They claim that their impatient desire would be overshadowed by the souls that were trapped, or even by marine ‘beasts,’ which cause some failures that complicate the trip and even death, as in the case of the Titan.
But these are only speculations and theories generated on the Internet, what do you think?
Story written in Spanish by Nayeli Párraga in Cultura Colectiva
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