James Cameron to attempt a dive to the Mariana Trench - alone

[Candlelight]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGWuxFhZDGc&feature=youtu.be

National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence and Filmmaker James Cameron has announced he will soon operate a one-man submarine 7 miles deep to the Pacific's Mariana Trench, the deepest point on earth.

Or as one of the comments put it, pick up shots for Avatar 2.

 

[Davros]

As long as he doesn't wake up Cthulhu while he's down there.

 

[backstept]

the sub reminds me of the mothership from the Homeworld games

can't wait to see the footage he gets . . . I've always been fascinated by the deep sea

 

[Candlelight]

the sub reminds me of the mothership from the Homeworld games

can't wait to see the footage he gets . . . I've always been fascinated by the deep sea

Just rent The Abyss from the video shop.

 

[scotpens]

the sub reminds me of the mothership from the Homeworld games.

Well, it's a bit more advanced than the bathyscaphe Trieste, which became the first (and so far the only) manned vessel to reach the Challenger Deep back in 1960. The Trieste could travel in basically two directions: down and up.

 

[CorporalClegg]

James Cameron is trying to equate himself with Neil Armstrong.

 

[TedShatner10]

James Cameron is trying to equate himself with Neil Armstrong.

Yeah, he's that Canadian director who started to go a bit gaga many years ago with Titanic, but him doing something that hasn't been done in over five decades is a real achievemen, and we know more about the surface of our Moon than we do of our deep ocean. We can blame the comparative lack of sea exploration on Vice Admiral Hyman G. Rickover, the US Navy jealously guarding its sea charts for its submarines, and space exploration taking the spotlight (though in the last three decades space exploration has been gradually losing steam anyway).

 

[1001001]

As long as he doesn't wake up Cthulhu while he's down there.

Not to mention Leap Day William....

 

[Lumi]

I can't wait to see!

 

[qwuit]

As long as he doesn't wake up Cthulhu while he's down there.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

As long as he doesn't wake up Cthulhu while he's down there.

If Cameron's notorious reputation is anything to go by, I think Cthulhu is the one that should be worried...

 

[Holdfast]

As long as he doesn't wake up Cthulhu while he's down there.

He's probably taking a 3D camera with him, just in case.

 

[ancientone51]

All I got was a link to Amazon.^

But good luck to him, wish I could join the expedition.

 

[Gov Kodos]

The Trieste went there first, crewed by Don Walsh and Jacques Piccard. They weren't overblown ego-maniacs.

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