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James Cameron, director of The Terminator, Titanic, and Avatar, has descended to the deepest point in our planet's oceans, the Challenger Deep, in an odd-looking submersible.
Here's the National Geographic Society Web site for the expedition.
The first guys down there, who descended when I was in kindergarten, did not get any pictures because the Trieste kicked up clouds of silt, which did not settle before they ascended. (I understand Capt. Don Walsh was aboard one of the ships on Cameron's expedition.)
This time, the Deepsea Challenger carried 3-D cameras and fancy lights.
Perhaps Cameron might have been disappointed to find the ocean's bottom bleak, nearly featureless, and devoid of visible life. But the rest of us may be relieved to learn, having never before seen this inaccessible spot, that we haven't been missing anything interesting.
Nevertheless, this is exciting news. This vehicle can go anywhere in any ocean and shoot documentaries there. I look forward to hearing more about its travels.
Here's the National Geographic Society Web site for the expedition.
The first guys down there, who descended when I was in kindergarten, did not get any pictures because the Trieste kicked up clouds of silt, which did not settle before they ascended. (I understand Capt. Don Walsh was aboard one of the ships on Cameron's expedition.)
This time, the Deepsea Challenger carried 3-D cameras and fancy lights.
Perhaps Cameron might have been disappointed to find the ocean's bottom bleak, nearly featureless, and devoid of visible life. But the rest of us may be relieved to learn, having never before seen this inaccessible spot, that we haven't been missing anything interesting.
Nevertheless, this is exciting news. This vehicle can go anywhere in any ocean and shoot documentaries there. I look forward to hearing more about its travels.
