Monday, March 26, 2012

James Cameron hits the world's floor -- and returns

Yesterday Cameron became the first person to make a solo dive to the ocean's deepest point -- a portion of the Mariana Trench known as "Challenge Deep." Cameron piloted a "vertical torpedo" of a submersible he dubbed "Deepsea Challenger" to the bottom of the trench, 35,756 feet down, then spent three hours filming and taking samples before safely returning to the surface.
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