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Parks Stephenson, the Titanic explorer who worked with director James Cameron on his classic romance drama, worries Sunday’s disappearance of a tourist submersible on an expedition to the wreckage “has the potential to be a major tragedy.”
“No matter what you may read in the coming hours, all that is truly known at this time is that communications with the submersible have been lost and that is unusual enough to warrant the most serious consideration,” Stephenson wrote in a Facebook post Monday.
“I am most concerned about the souls aboard, whose identities have not yet been made public,” he added at the time, though the five passengers have since been identified.
Stephenson and Cameron, 68, journeyed over 2 miles beneath the ocean surface to the wreckage of the Titanic in 2005.
The expert worked as the technical adviser on the set of the 1997 Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet blockbuster and has reportedly visited the wreckage several other times, including as recently as 2019.
Stephenson declined to speak with the media, writing in a subsequent Facebook post Monday: “This is an evolving situation and I want to be respectful to everyone who might be affected by what has the potential to be a major tragedy.
