In a 20-minute phone conversation on Friday, the film director described the meeting of deep-sea minds, which took place on Tuesday and has resulted in a memo, signed by the participants, that he provided to the Coast Guard and other agencies overseeing BP’s efforts to stanch the seabed gusher. He told me he’ll make the document public once the agencies have had time to review it.
Cameron also defended his involvement on the issue and clarified his views of BP, which he said were distorted by media coverage of his talk midweek at a digital media conference. Here are a few of his thoughts:
James Cameron, best known as one of the world’s most successful filmmakers, this week found himself slammed in some circles for pulling together a brain trust of underwater technology experts to provide advice to the Obama administration for next steps in the unfolding Gulf of Mexico petro-calamity.
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