Posted on 03/25/2012 6:02:22 PM PDT by anymouse
Hollywood icon James Cameron has made it to Earth's deepest point.
The director of "Titanic," ''Avatar" and other films used a specially designed submarine to dive nearly seven miles, completing his journey a little before 8 a.m. Monday local time, according to Stephanie Montgomery of the National Geographic Society.
He plans to spend about six hours exploring and filming the Mariana Trench, about 200 miles southwest of the Pacific island of Guam.
"All systems OK," were Cameron's first words upon reaching the bottom, according to a statement. His arrival at a depth of 35,756 feet came early Sunday evening on the U.S. East Coast, after a descent that took more than two hours.
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How low can the 1% sink?
-:) Good for him, on a totally pointless adventure. Probably, employed more people than DumBO’s stimuless.
Hope he doesn’t pull the plug... a hell of alot of water would go down the drain.
As I understand it, he paid for quite a bit of it. He also has done many deep dives in other types of submarines, so he is actually one of the few people qualified for this type of thing.
Associated Press is CRAP.
Why do you people keep posting from the AP?
“He plans to spend about six hours down there”
Wow, much better than my idea of sending down a variety of video cameras (low light, infrared, etc) with live feed and leaving them there for years.
Maybe they just keep them closed at that depth and gradually open them as the rise to the surface for air? /s
THAT has to be one of the best posts on Free Republic of ALL time. It sure is for me. Nice.
too bad he didn’t stay
Thread winner. I am so sick of all the media publicity about that gangbanger.
Never let a crisis go to waste.
Spelling is correct!
Imagine that the father of the beeper spelling something correct on the first try
Your bring up ROVs prompted my curiosity and I looked it up. I guess there have only been two, 1995 and 2009, robot remotely controlled dives in the Challenger Deep. I would love for them to do some core drilling there. That is some of the oldest ocean sediment.
Well he’s only about 4,000 miles short of the “deepest spot on earth”...
But he did go to the deepest spot in the ocean on earth...
I believe that there were two “portholes” on Trieste. They were made of very thick quartz crystal.
One of these cracked which is what made the BANG. The two scientists inside could not find any damage so they continued their mission. It was not until after they had surfaced that the damage was discovered.
Brave, brave men.
“Hope he doesn’t pull the plug... a hell of alot of water would go down the drain.”
Good one!
We would all hear a giant sucking sound if that happened...
“If I had been on that thing I guarantee you it would have gone back up immediately.”
If it had been me there would have been one nasty smell in the sub.
“Wait a minute! That isn’t some weird geological feature. It sort of looks organic, like the tentacle of an octopus, but ten thousand times...larger...
PULL ME UP! PULL ME UP! UP! UP! UP! NOW! NOW! NOW!!!”
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