Filmmaker Cameron, 1st to reach Earth’s deepest spot in solo dive, calls it desolate, foreboding
March 26, 2012 in Grand Forks Herald
James Cameron, the man behind “Titanic,” “Avatar” and other films, today described his three hours on the bottom of the Marianas Trench, nearly 7 miles down in a dark freezing and alien place. He is the only person to dive there solo, using a sub he helped design. He is the first person to reach that depth, 35,576 feet, since it was initially explored in 1960.
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