Secular Café: Here He Goes: James Camron Starts his descent to the bottom of the ocean

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Here He Goes: James Camron Starts his descent to the bottom of the ocean Mar 25th 2012, 20:15 Quote: BREAKING: James Cameron Begins Descent to Ocean's Deepest Point Explorer-filmmaker set to become first solo sub pilot to reach Challenger Deep. Updated 4:00 p.m. ET, March 25, 2012 After years of preparation and days of uncooperative weather conditions, James Cameron, at approximately 2 p.m. ET (4 a.m., local time), began descending solo to Earth's deepest, and perhaps most alien, realm, according to members of the National Geographic expedition. If all goes to plan, within two hours of his submersible's launch, the National Geographic explorer and filmmaker should become the first human to reach the Mariana Trench's Challenger Deep alone—and the only one to explore it in depth, in person. Cameron's "vertical torpedo" of a sub, as he calls it, has already made the nearly 7-mile (11-kilometer) trip to Challenger Deep and back, unmanned and unscathed, Cameron told National Geographic News on Friday. (See pictures of Cameron's sub.) "We did some test launches and recoveries, and we did an unpiloted dive of the vehicle," Cameron said in a phone interview Friday. Folded into a sub cockpit as cramped as any Apollo capsule, Cameron will collect data, specimens, and imagery unthinkable in 1960, when Walsh and Piccard left Challenger Deep having seen little more than the silt stirred up by their bathyscaphe. .... http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...e-sub-descent/

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