Hollywood film director James Cameron, who helmed the 1997 movie Titanic, has told the BBC he predicted the loss of the Titan submersible days earlier.He said he was on a ship on Sunday when the sub went missing, and did not hear about it until Monday.
"I felt in my bones what had happened. For the sub's electronics to fail and its communication system to fail, and its tracking transponder to fail simultaneously - sub's gone."The director went on: "I immediately got on the phone to some of my contacts in the deep submersible community. Within about an hour I had the following facts. They were on descent. They were at 3500 metres, heading for the bottom at 3800 metres.
On Thursday, an official from the US Navy told the BBC's partner CBS News that the navy detected "an acoustic anomaly consistent with an implosion" shortly after the Titan lost contact with the surface. Cameron told BBC News the past week has "felt like a prolonged and nightmarish charade where people are running around talking about banging noises and talking about oxygen and all this other stuff".
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