James Cameron slams officials for not announcing implosion of missing Titanic sub sooner

Film director James Cameron has called out officials over the Titanic sub rescue saga for not saying sooner that it had imploded on the day it went missing.

Contact was lost with the OceanGate submersible Titan on 18 June after it had taken five people towards the sunken wreckage of the Titanic.

Meanwhile, Titanic film director James Cameron said he knew on Monday (19 June) that the submersible and all aboard were already gone after he’d been told about a ‘loud bang’ occurring at the moment the surface lost contact with the submarine.

Speaking on CNN, Cameron has called out the lack of announcement about the loud noise at the time the sub went missing for perpetuating a ‘prolonged nightmarish charade’ and giving ‘false hope’ to the families of the deceased.

He said: “Then I watched over the ensuing days this everybody running round with their hair on fire search knowing full well that it was futile.

“Hoping against hope I was wrong but knowing in my bones that I wasn’t.

“It certainly wasn’t a surprise today, I just feel terrible for the families that had to go through all these false hopes that kept getting dangled as it payed out.”

As much of the submersible’s parts will be collected as possible to work out precisely what went wrong with the vessel.

Experts will be looking for potential breaks and ruptures in the sub to explain which part failed and caused the implosion.

However, depending on the strength of the implosion it could be very difficult to properly lay out a timeline of events.