OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush, who was among the five crew members killed on the submersible, had previously defended the decision to manufacture the Titan with the material.
Officials are searching for clues to how and why the Titan submersible imploded deep in North Atlantic waters.
Renowned Hollywood director and Titanic researcher James Cameron said he believes the carbon-fiber composite construction of the submersible's hull was the "critical failure" that led to its implosion during a deep-sea tour of the Titanic wreckage. "You don't use composites for vessels that are seeing external pressure. They're great for internal pressure vessels like scuba tanks, for example, but they're terrible for external pressure," Cameron, who famously directed the Oscar-winning film "Titanic," told ABC News' George Stephanopoulos in an interview Friday on "Good Morning America."
"This was trying to apply aviation thinking to a deep-submergence engineering problem. We all said that it was, you know, a flawed idea and they didn't go through certification," he continued. "I think that was a critical failure.SEE ALSO:
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