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Or was it just one of those things. the oceans, just because you pass every test and get every stamp there is to have doesn't mean you're going to have a perfectly safe dive. oceans are full of surprises. it's a hostile place to be. somewhere in between there something that could have happened to any submarine or this was a fundamental design flaw that's going to be the close or closely to the truth about what happened in this case. >> your friend, p.h., had been on more than 35 dives to the wreckage of the titanic. you talked about his experience. he loved going there. we heard from james cam...

Special connection between people here in st. john's and the titanic, the wreckage, when the film "titanic" has made here james cameron set up in this area, people have pictures with him everywhere, when the titanic went down there is a whole history of it here as well. there was a great connection to the titanic. there was great concern that the people in that craft were sitting there in the dark in the cold dwindling oxygen, not knowing what the rescue efforts were going -- if they were going to find them or not. the stuff of nightmares. in the back of everyone's mind here was this sense tha...

>> welcome back. we are live in st. john's newfoundland. titanic filmmaker and deep-sea explorer james cameron is now weighing in on the tragic loss of the titan submersible and his five-member crew. a catastrophic explosion taking place deep under the sea off the coast here in st. john's. titanic has been to the titanic shipwreck more than 30 times himself. in fact he has gone to depths three times that of the titanic. he told me last night this was heartbreaking and preventable. >> obviously we are all heartsick from the outcome of this. i have been living with it for a few days now as some ...

The hole was crafted from a lightweight carbon fiber instead of steel or titanium to fit more passengers. such a somber 24 hours it has been here in st. john's. talk about a little bit of what we know is still going on. >> there are a lot of resources, some of them are pulling back. they had a lot of medical ships with everything from medical personnel to decompression chambers. >> reporter: there were nine ships yesterday. >> there were going to be 10 in all. there is year at the airport that never made it on the ship to do savage work. it is unclear if they will do any major salvage work now...

Those depths of the ocean. officials say the implosion would have happened in a fraction of a millisecond, essentially killing everyone on board instantly. one expert says no one inside would have realized there was even a problem. as far as timing goes, the u.s. navy now says on sunday they detected an underwater sound consistent with an implosion, but at the time it was, quote, unquote, not definitive. the navy also says at least five different major pieces of debris have been located. the coast guard now says that rovs are going to remain on the scene as they continue their search, and the ...