“Look, I spent about one-and-a-half years making 'Titanic' and another four and-a-half years making 'Avatar,' but the rest of my time in recent years has been spent doing deep-ocean projects.”Ĭameron said he has designed pressure-resistant camera housings, lighting towers that could be dropped to the seafloor two miles down and other high-end deep-sea gear. “I wasn’t wearing a Hollywood hat when I was ,” Cameron told Revkin. Revkin for the New York Times’ dot-earth blog, Cameron said he got his first training in remotely piloted submersible ships in 1988 while filming “The Abyss,” and continued on through “Titanic” – working in waters deeper than the location of the destroyed Deepwater well in the Gulf of Mexico. Cameron, of course, is well-known for the meticulous approach he took when filming underwater sequences in 1997's “Titanic” and 1989's “The Abyss.” The meeting included representatives from the Energy Department, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Coast Guard and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Daly reports.Ĭameron, for his part, dismissed media critics making light of his technical credentials. Government officials met last week with Cameron, apparently to pick his brain about underwater filming and remote vehicle technologies, reports Matthew Daly of the Associated Press. Each developed valuable technical expertise while working on fictional movies about sea disasters.
To the rescue in the the ugly Gulf of Mexico oil spill saga come two Hollywood luminaries, “Avatar” and "Titanic" director James Cameron and “Waterworld” star Kevin Costner.
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