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Some People Are Just Finding Out James Cameron Is Also A Deep Sea Explorer And The Reactions Are Hilarious

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James Cameron attends the photocall for "Avatar: The Way of Water

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When you mention the name James Cameron to someone, their first thought will likely be that he’s the director of three of the four highest-grossing movies ever made.

But did you know that Cameron is, by all measures, a professional deep-sea explorer? How else do you think he’s made movies like The Abyss and Titanic and Avatar: The Way of Water?

In fact, there’s a joke among film fans that Cameron is actually an oceanic explorer who makes wildly successful movies in his spare time.

As for how most of the general public is just finding out about Cameron’s maritime hobbies, the acclaimed director appeared on various news programs — ABC, BBC, CNN, etc. — on Thursday to discuss the implosion of the Titanic-exploring submersible that took the lives of five people.

“People in the community were very concerned about this sub. A number of the top players in the deep submergence engineering community even wrote letters to the company, saying that what they were doing was too experimental to carry passengers and that it needed to be certified,” Cameron said.

“I’m struck by the similarity of the Titanic disaster itself, where the captain was repeatedly warned about ice ahead of his ship, and yet he steamed at full speed into an ice field on a moonless night and many people died as a result. For us, it’s a very similar tragedy where warnings went unheeded. To take place at the same exact site with all the diving that’s going on all around the world, I think it’s just astonishing. It’s really quite surreal.”

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In addition to his thoughts on the tragic submersible accident, Cameron also revealed that he’s calculated that he’s spent more time “on the Titanic” as a result of his deep sea dives than the actual captain of the Titanic. He also proudly holds the world record for the deepest dive ever at 35,787 feet in the Mariana Trench.

The search for the Titan and its members was concluded on Thursday after wreckage was found in the area that the submersible was searching. The debris that was found, according to U.S. Coast Guard Rear Admiral John Mauger,” is consistent with the catastrophic loss of the pressure chamber. ”

“Upon this determination, we immediately notified the families on behalf of the United States Coast Guard and the entire unified command. I offer my deepest condolences to the families I can only imagine what this has been like for them,” Mauger said during a news conference.