James Cameron knew on Monday Titanic sub had imploded and rescue was 'futile'

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Titanic director James Cameron has claimed he knew the missing OceanGate submersile had imploded and its occupants were dead on Monday.

The filmmaker and deep sea expert told CNN he figured out the tragic outcome days before it was officially announced by the US Coastguard and he felt watching the desperate search and rescue mission was "futile".

Cameron said that as soon as he'd heard the sub had lost contact with its mothership, he got in touch with some members of the deep-sea diving community that he's friends with and was told the vessel had lost communication and its tracking at the same time.

Cameron told CNN's Anderson Cooper that this led him to work out the tragic fate of the five men on board, which included a 19-year-old Glasgow student.Speaking last night, Cameron said: "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 that 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 (mother) ship uses to track where the sub is.“That seemed to me enough confirmation that I let all of my inner circle of people know that we had lost our comrades, and I encouraged all of them to raise a glass in their honour on Monday.Cameron directed the hit 1997 smash hit film starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet and he's made 33 dives to the Titanic wreckage.The submersible was carrying five people when it took to the sea on Sunday and headed down towards the Titanic wreckage in the North Atlantic.