A few days ago, director James Cameron became the first person to travel to the ocean’s deepest point in a solo dive. While not busy breaking his own box office records, Cameron was secretly designing and building an innovative submersible to take him to the bottom of the Mariana Trench. He made the voyage a few days ago with LED lights and HD cameras in tow, and now the first footage from his dive has gone online. Cameron’s adventure will be chronicled in the 3D documentary Deepest Challenge, but this first footage is pretty incredible. Cameron will no doubt be channeling some of his experiences into the Avatar sequels, which are said to delve into Pandora’s oceans, but fellow science nuts can join me in geeking out over the ramifications this dive will have in the scientific community.
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Footage courtesy of National Geographic:
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It’s nice when gazillionaires put their fortune towards pioneering science. Some of the shots I’ve seen from deep ocean dives are absolutely sublime. Life has actually evolved bioluminescence where no light is found. Looking forward to this one.
couldn’t have said it better myself. love what james cameron is doing.
Jon Landou producer of Avatar on his promotional tour to India for Titanic 3d said that Avatar sequel will have lots of underwater sequences and here Cameron is pioneering the effects for the movie.
Damn Mr. Cameron. This is some deep S*$%! lol
I think you mean ‘Deep Ship’.
Now thats dedication, talk about doing research !!! lol
Exciting!
So glad he has facial hair again! Never looked right clean-shaven…
no irony, sarcasm, or internet trolling will do.
this is an impressive and ballsy move.
Keeep it up Jim! I love your work. You are a genius.