James Cameron, the director of the 1997 Hollywood film Titanic, told the BBC that he had foreseen the loss of the Titan submersible days beforehand.
33 dives to the Titanic wreck have been completed by Cameron.
He claimed that he was aboard a ship on Sunday when the sub vanished and that he did not learn of it until Monday.
He claimed he immediately suspected a catastrophe when he discovered that the sub had lost both its navigation and communication at the same time.
"I could feel it in my bones what had occurred. The sub is destroyed if its electronics, communication system, and tracking transponder all malfunction at once. ".
"I immediately picked up the phone to some of my contacts in the deep submersible community," the director continued. I learned the following information within an hour or so. They were descending. At 3500 meters, they were moving toward the 3800-meter bottom.
"Their communications were down, and their navigation was down. I said right away that losing communications and navigation at the same time required an extreme catastrophic event or a high, highly energetic catastrophic event. Implosion was the first concept that came to mind. ".
On Thursday, a US Navy representative told CBS News that the navy had discovered "an acoustic anomaly consistent with an implosion" not long after the Titan lost contact with the earth. .
The official claimed that the details were given to the US Coast Guard team, who then used them to reduce the size of the search area.
According to Cameron, this past week "felt like a prolonged and nightmarish charade where people are running around talking about banging noises and talking about oxygen and all this other stuff.".
"I knew that sub was exactly where it had been at the previous depth and location. That's precisely where they discovered it, he said.
When a remotely controlled underwater vehicle was launched on Thursday, he continued, searchers "found it within hours, probably within minutes."
