ET is taking a look back at its 1997 interview with James Cameron when he discussed the dives he completed while doing research for 'Titanic'.
director, when he shared footage from the 12 dives he completed as part of his research for his acclaimed film.
Cameron's decision to go to the Titanic's wreckage came after he priced out the options of creating a"perfect simulation of diving the Titanic and what's it going to cost to actually dive the Titanic," and found that the cost wasn't all that different. "It was a mess down there with currents and so on and figuring out how to do things and coordinate," he said."The first ones were rehearsal dives, really. We didn't get good footage until about the third or fourth dive."
Due to constraints about the type of camera they could get down there, none of the footage they shot during the dives appeared in the movie. "This was sort of extracurricular," he said."... As excited as we were, there was suddenly kind of a somberness to it, because it's like this big iron tomb down there."
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