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The Titanic director has made 33 dives to the shipwreck and visited ocean depths in a submersible he built himself. He compares OceanGate to the Titanic in that both ignored safety warnings.

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[–] itsjustallergies@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Glad to see James Cameron weighing in because James Cameron knows the people need James Cameron's opinion

[–] SpacemanSpiff@kbin.social 30 points 1 year ago

I think if you read the article you’ll find he’s actually an expert in this, on multiple levels. I had no idea previously.

[–] Hyperreality@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

James Cameron's not faking expertise in deep sea diving. He did a solo dive to the deepest-known point on Earth back in 2012.

[–] Unaware7013@kbin.social 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In a submarine he built himself. Cameron has every right to comment on this event, he's legitimately a subject matter expert.

[–] PabloDiscobar@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

afaik, he piloted it, he did not build it. He brought cameras.

[–] livus@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

He was part of the team that designed and built it according to this Science.org article.

[–] rusticus@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And yet not 2 posts up you quote Cameron in a way that makes him sound like he has significant knowledge about the structural integrity and construction of a high pressure tolerant vessel.

[–] PabloDiscobar@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I pulled an extract of the article. The extract doesn't say that he built the sub, he is educated on the subject, that's it.

[–] rusticus@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

It's not clear what you are trying to say. He obviously funded it and piloted it and had to be intimately involved in its construction, including oversight and planning. He took the thing down to the bottom of the Mariana Trench. Are you arguing that he doesn't know as much about the construction of the sub as a guy welding a joint or tightening a bolt? I'm pretty sure that most people would say that if you could name one person that "built" the sub it would be him. He is arguably the world's expert on this topic.

[–] gk99@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

More than we need some armchair commenter trying to diss someone who's an expert in this field because...?