“I encouraged all of them to raise a glass in their honor on Monday,” Cameron said of his community group. “A shockwave event so powerful that it actually took out a secondary system that has its own pressure vessel and its own battery power supply which is the transponder that the ship uses to track where the sub is.”Ĭameron said he did more digging and got some additional information that seemed to confirm that the submersible had imploded. “The only scenario that I could come up with in my mind that could account for that was an implosion,” he told Cooper on Thursday.

James Cameron, director of the hit 1997 film “Titanic,” says news of the Titan submersible’s explosion “certainly wasn’t a surprise.”Ĭameron, who has made 33 dives to the wreckage himself, told CNN’s Anderson Cooper that when he first heard the news of the Titan incident Monday morning, he connected with his small community in the deep submergence group and found out within about a half-hour that the submersible had lost communication and tracking, simultaneously. James Cameron appears on CNN on Thursday, June 22.