“For me, there was no doubt. I knew that sub was sitting exactly underneath its last known depth and position, and that’s exactly where they found it. There was no search. When they finally got an ROV down there that could make the depth, they found it within hours. Probably within minutes.”
Cameron, who has long been a deep-sea explorer, said the media coverage of how much oxygen was left inside the submersible created a “prolonged and nightmarish charade.”
“That was just a cruel, slow turn of the screw for four days as far as I’m concerned,” he added. “Because I knew the truth on Monday morning.”
The Canadian film director wishes he would have sounded the alarm on Titan.
“I thought it was a horrible idea. I wish I'd spoken up, but I assumed somebody was smarter than me, you know, because I never experimented with that technology, but it just sounded bad on its face,” Cameron told Reuters in an interview.