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He had done just enough for the camera housing, which sheared off and disappeared, to absorb the impact. “Lights out in 2/10,000ths of a second.” It didn’t come.
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“I tense for the thunder crack of implosion,” Cameron later wrote in his diary. The camera gradually swung away, crashing into the wreck at a 45-degree angle. With superhuman self-possession, Cameron adjusted the mechanism’s gain control and, as disaster loomed in his window, forced himself to turn the controls as slowly as possible. The controls froze, as they were wont to do if turned too fast. (For good reason, the cylinder had been nicknamed The Cannon.) To avert catastrophe, Cameron attempted to deflect the blow with the camera’s pan and tilt controls, aiming the lens away from the hull. Such a collision, he knew, could crack the lens of the camera pointed at the wreck and, under 1.1 million pounds of pressure, send a high-speed tsunami of seawater blasting down the camera’s titanium cylinder into the shell of the sub, killing him and his crew in an instant.
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He realised the sub was about to collide with the hull of the Titanic. Suddenly, a cliff face of rusting steel, studded with rivets the size of a breakfast grapefruit, emerged from the gloom. Peering through the tiny porthole of Russian minisub Mir 1, he could hear the insistent ‘ping’ of the sonar accelerating alarmingly. Two-and-a-half miles beneath the waves of the North Atlantic, it began to dawn on James Cameron that something was wrong.