Titanic director James Cameron reveals that after 33 dives to the ship's wreckage site, he has spent more time with it than the captain.
Titanic director James Cameron revealed that after 33 dives to the ship's wreck, he calculated that he spent more time on it than its captain did during its maiden voyage in 1912. Cameron's Titanic was a massive success commercially and critically, winning 11 Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director for Cameron, while also grossing a then-record $1.8 billion at the worldwide box office.
While discussing the recent Oceangate submersible disaster with ABC News, Cameron drew on his experiences diving 33 times to the Titanic's century-old wreck, which sits around 12,500 feet below the surface in international waters in the North Atlantic.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Well I've been down there many times, and I know the wreck site very well as does my friend Bob Ballard. I've made 33 dives, I've actually calculated that I've spent more time on the ship than the captain did back in the day.
Breaking Down James Cameron's History With The Titanic Cameron's fascination with deep-sea diving and shipwrecks began as a teenager when he wrote a short story called The Abyss about a deep-sea diving mission, which eventually became his movie of the same name in 1989. Filming for The Abyss took place largely underwater, which gave Cameron his first experiences with the intricacies of diving.
Cameron then searched for Hollywood funding to pay for his own expedition down to the wreckage, admitting that, at first, it was more for his own curiosity than to research for a movie. After diving towards the wreck a dozen times to shoot actual footage, which was used in the movie's opening sequence, Cameron realized the responsibility of telling a story about a real-life tragedy of this magnitude.
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