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‘Titanic’ director says search for missing sub became a ‘nightmarish charade’

James Cameron: ‘That was just a cruel, slow turn of the screw for four days as far as I’m concerned’

“Titanic” director James Cameron says the search operation for a deep-sea tourist sub turned into a “nightmarish charade” that prolonged the agony of the families of the passengers.

Cameron told the BBC in an interview broadcast on Friday that he “felt in my bones” that the Titan submersible had been lost soon after he heard it had lost contact with the surface during its descent to the wreckage of the ocean liner at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.

He

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