Titanic Director Takes a Shot at Oil Spill 'Morons'-James Cameron says BP turned away his offer to help with Gulf oil spill

"Titanic" and "Avatar" director James Cameron.

"Titanic" director and deep-sea expert James Cameron is saying the people who keep botching a fix to the Gulf oil spill are a bunch of "morons."

BP snubbed Cameron's offer to help plug the stubborn gusher that's become the worst environmental disaster in US history.



"Over the last few weeks I've watched . . . and [been] thinking, 'Those morons don't know what they're doing,' " he said.

He didn't say who in particular -- BP executives or Obama-administration officials -- he was calling "morons" in a speech Wednesday at the All Things Digital conference in Palos Verdes, Calif.

Cameron is a pioneer of undersea filming and remote-vehicle technologies, as well as director of "Avatar" and "Terminator 2." He huddled this week at the Washington headquarters of the Environmental Protection Agency with top scientists brainstorming a solution to the unstoppable oil leak deep beneath the Gulf.

Cameron helped develop submersible equipment to film the wrecks of the real Titanic and the German battleship Bismark about two miles underwater.

James Cameron, who knows something about underwater disasters, floated a "titanic"putdown of BP, calling the embattled oil company a bunch of "morons.�

The award-winning director of "Avatar"and "Titanic" said Wednesday that BP had rejected his offer to help fight the massive oil spill spewing in the Gulf of Mexico, reports Reuters.

"Over the last few weeks, I've watched, as we all have, with growing horror and heartache, watching what's happening in the Gulf and thinking those morons don't know what they're doing," Cameron said at the All Things Digital tech conference.

Cameron has done extensive work with robot submarines and underwater filming in his movies.

Earlier in the day he attended a conference with the Environmental Protection Agency and pushed to have the government get its own independent look at the leak.

"If you're not monitoring it independently, you're asking the perpetrator to give you the video of the crime scene," Cameron said.

The Deepwater Horizon rig exploded April 20, killing 11 workers and sparking the worst oil spill in U.S. history.