Monday 26 March 2012

James Cameron Reaches Ocean's Deepest Point


This morning, James Cameron arrived at the Mariana Trench's Challenger Deep, the deepest point in the ocean. His depth on arrival: 35,756 feet (10,898 meters). The National Geographic explorer and filmmaker (Titanic, Avatar) reached the bottom after a 2-hour-and-36-minute descent.

Folded into a sub cockpit as cramped as any Apollo capsule, Cameron is now investigating a seascape more alien to humans than the moon. Cameron is only the third person to reach this Pacific Ocean valley southwest of Guam - and the only one to do so solo.

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