I Get To Bear Witness To Miracle: James Cameron On Going Past Titanic Wreckage During One Of His 33 Dives

A deep-sea submersible pod operated by Oceangate Expeditions went missing on Sunday. The pod carried five people on a voyage to the century-old Titanic wreckage that sits on the bottom of the sea.

After a desperate multinational five-day search, the U.S. Coast Guard said that the Titan submersible was found in pieces due to a "catastrophic implosion" and all the five abroad were killed.

Soon after the news was confirmed, 'Titanic' director and deep-sea explorer James Cameron opined that he had suspected the imploding of the submersible soon after it lost contact with its surface support ship, drawing a striking similarity between the Titan implosion and the 1912 Titanic disaster.

While James Cameron made the conclusion based on the information from his sources, he himself made around 33 dives around the Titanic wreckage site and multiple dives to the deepest part of the ocean, known as the Mariana Trench, reaching a depth of approximately 36,000 feet.

Cameron documented his trek into cameras and in a National Geographic Video, he can be describing the experience that began with an early morning dive.

He says in the video, "I took off like a shot, fastest I've ever seen. The surface just receded". He says he just went away. He looks at the 'depth gauge' and is at a thousand feet in the first couple of minutes, and it went like this. 'The sub's just going like a bat out of hell," Cameron was quoted.

That's when he revealed he went past Titanic depth. He was at 27,000 feet, which was the deepest he had ever dived, the ocean floor, however, was still at nine thousand feet.

Cameron told 60 Minutes Australia about the deep sea explorations in 2018, "I call it bearing witness. I get to bear witness to a miracle that's down there all the time. This is not just some, you know rich guy ego thing. This is about, you've got so much time on this planet, so much life, so much breath in your body. You have to do something. If you should be fortunate enough to make some money and have some capital, some working capital, why not put it into your dream."