Titanic Director James Cameron is Really Angry
Hollywood hotshot director, James Cameron, is PO’d. And why wouldn’t he be, after all he did volunteer to step in and solve the Deepwater Horizon blowout, but BP doesn’t seem to be taking him seriously. What the heck is the matter with BP, don’t they realize this is the guy that pioneered deep water drilling with his movie “The Abyss”. I had the opportunity to see that movie again this weekend on TV and I have to tell you, it was brilliant! As shown in the movie, instead of using a floating drilling platform like the Deepwater Horizon, Cameron’s big idea is to create a drilling submarine, in which you encase the drilling crew in a bunch of metal spheres thousands of feet underwater and resting on the sea floor. What a terrific idea.
What BP doesn’t seem to understand about the self proclaimed “King of the World” is that his brilliance is so great that even though he admits he knows nothing about how to cap a blowout, his underwater filming skills will somehow undoubtedly translate into a solution for what has proven, so far, to be an intractable problem for the some of the most experienced and skilled deep water drilling engineers in the world. His understandable frustration with BP having declined the use of his giant intellect lead him to say, “Over the last few weeks I’ve watched as we all have with growing sort of horror and heartache watching what’s happening in the Gulf and thinking, those morons don’t know what they’re doing.” Wow.
I’m actually surprised that BP hasn’t taken him up on his offer. After all, a giant engineering problem could probably use a giant tool…like James Cameron.