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Yes, absolutely, there is a huge debate starting now. and loads of questions being raised about the design and specification of the titan submersible itself and also about the whole nature of paying passengers being able to go to such depths in such dangerous conditions. they are paying a huge amount of money for that privilege, so it is not something that has a mass participation event, but something that many people could ever afford, so there are not huge numbers of people are potentially at ...

Detected a noise which could have been the vessel imploding. there are now growing questions about its safety. the director of the film titanic, james cameron, who has completed 33 dives to the wreck, believes the tragedy could have been prevented. the comms were lost and navigation was lost. and i said instantly you cant lose comms and navigation together without an extreme catastrophic event. a highly energetic, catastrophic event, the first thing that popped to mind was implosion. so i felt i...

The us navy says on sunday underwater microphones detected a noise which could have been the vessel imploding. there are now growing questions about its safety. the director of the film titanic, james cameron, who has completed 33 dives to the wreck, believes the tragedy could have been prevented. the comms were lost and navigation was lost. and i said, instantly, you cant lose comms and navigation together without an extreme catastrophic event. a highly energetic, catastrophic event. the first ...

Focused on the mini subs uncertified cheaper carbon fiber shell never before used in deep sea submersibles. titanic movie director and ocean explorer james cameron says that decision may have proved fatal. >> you know, sometimes people get go fever but you shouldnt be using an experimental vehicle for paying passengers that arent themselves deep ocean engineers. >> reporter: in 2018 oceangate founder stockton rush submitted this patent application disclosing the carbon fiber was for use in extre...

It is to be clear that his submersible like this and what theyre doing for tourism would not be allowed in the coastguard would not allow it and it would not be able to work in british coastal waters and it wouldve required it to be certified. sending in canada. and it turns off that they operated in international waters were no coastguard has anyjurisdiction and you found two loopholes and is to say it wasnt very wise.— say it wasnt very wise. james cameron _ say it wasnt very wise. james cam...

Business correspondent olivia who covering this story. >> i want to point out another piece of military equipment from the u.s. navy thats been deployed to assist in the search and recovery efforts. the navy official sharing with roerts the fly away deep salvage system is also being made available. this piece of equipment is used to dive deep into the ocean. it can go as far as 20,000 feet to retrieve objects that have sunk to the bottom of the ocean. so 20,000 feet far exceeds depth of where th...

It could be a criminal act and the ntsb took over when it was an accident. in this type of case theres no criminal activity alleged, theres somewhat of concern about the safety of this thing, there was a trade, an industry group of deep ocean explorers wrote a letter to this company saying they had concerns about the experimental nature of this vessel and if there was a catastrophic failure, not only would hurt this company but hurt the industry, the deep ocean exploration industry at large, and...

To bring something up from the bottom of the ocean, are they analyzing photos, where is that analysis taking place. were going to get more answers at the 3:00 p.m. press conference in boston, but certainly the process going on now in the short term, would love to hear you speak to that, dakota. >> side scanning sonar is part of the capabilities of these remotely operated vehicles. you can get dimensional data in a flat sense of what it looks like. you can also get photographic evidence. is it wh...

Of this. what do you -- >> james cameron is an expert in deep water -- particularly deep water ocean be cinematography. the titanic film is one of the -- absolutely the most famous titanic film of all time. he has a special interest in the deep ocean. im sure -- i dont know all of what his opinion is on this versus another. but i know that he cares deeply about the deep ocean, too. like p.h., like stockton. i know p.h. and james cameron were friends. im sure stockton and all probably know each o...

The ocean is nearly 7 miles deep. The Titanic is nowhere near the bottom at only 12,500 feet down. The deepest point, Challenger Deep, is 35,839 feet.