James Cameron has offered his views on the sub exploring the Titanic.
Cameron, 68, famously directed the 1997 movie Titanic which was nominated for 14 Oscars and won 11 of them, making it the joint most-decorated movie in Academy Awards history.
The movie director has explored the wreckage of the Titanic himself, and according to CBC, Cameron has spent more time around what remains of the ship than the passengers spent aboard during her maiden voyage.
Following the news that those on the Titan, a submersible that was exploring the wreckage, have sadly been presumed dead, the Titanic director has claimed that he was aware of its fate on Monday - three days before the Coast Guard made the announcement.
As per CNN, Cameron said: "I tracked down some intel that was probably of a military origin, although it could have been research - because there are hydrophones all over the Atlantic - and got confirmation that there was loud noise consistent with an implosion."
The director said that he has felt "heartsick at the outcome of this" and that he has been "living with it for a few days".
"The first I heard of it was on Monday morning. I immediately got on my network - because it's a very small community in the deep submergence group - and found out some information with about a half hour that they had lost comms and they had lost tracking simultaneously," Cameron told the outlet.
Cameron continued: "The only scenario that I could come up with in my mind that could account for that was an implosion. A shockwave event so powerful 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."
Cameron explained that he let his "inner circle" know on Monday that the Titan crew had been lost, and that they had raised a glass in their honor.
"Then I watched over the ensuing days this whole sort of everybody-running-around-with-their-hair-on-fire search, knowing full well that it was futile, hoping against hope that I was wrong but knowing in my bones that I wasn't," Cameron continued.
He added that it "wasn't a surprise" when the announcement on Thursday revealed that the Titan Five had "been lost".
More people have been to outer space than have seen the wreckage of the Titanic, largely due to the conditions at 12,500 feet below surface level.
The ill-fated passenger liner first made its maiden voyage from Southampton on April 10, 1912, with 2,240 passengers and crew onboard the state-of-the-art vessel.
Tragically, just five days later as the ship sailed across the North Atlantic Ocean, it struck an iceberg which resulted in the Titanic breaking in half and sinking to the depths, as per the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Our thoughts remain with the loved ones of those lost on the Titan submersible.
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