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explorer-in-residence James Cameron has
finished a record dive to the deepest
part of the Earth’s over the Challenger
Deep which is only a small part of the
Mariana Trench is something like 50
times the size of the Grand Canyon so
you know this is a vast you know
frontier down there that’s going to take
us a while to understand the died
following and the design and
construction of a specialized
state-of-the-art submersible for the
deepest solo man dive in history the
whole sub actually squeezes down almost
three inches in length when it gets to
the bottom of the ocean just because of
the pressure the sphere that I’m in
actually actually shrinks the the window
that I look out actually pushes in
toward me under 16,000 pounds per square
inch of pressure
Cameron’s spent more than three hours in
the lowest point of the Mariana Trench
about seven miles down filming and
documenting what he saw and taking
samples it was a very lunar a very
desolate place very very isolated my
feeling was one of complete isolation
from all of humanity I mean I felt like
I literally in the space of one day have
gone to another planet and come back
armed with an 8-foot panel of LED lights
and several cameras Cameron will be able
to share with the rest of the world a
part of the planet that is virtually
unknown
the animals that live there are adapted
to this extreme pressure this total
darkness
they usually wipe they have no pigment
some of them have eyes to see
bioluminescence some of them have no
eyes at all it’s completely alien world
Cameron is the first human to reach the
deepest point of the Mariana Trench in
more than 50 years
explorer-in-residence James Cameron has
finished a record dive to the deepest
part of the Earth’s over the Challenger
Deep which is only a small part of the
Mariana Trench is something like 50
times the size of the Grand Canyon so
you know this is a vast you know
frontier down there that’s going to take
us a while to understand the died
following and the design and
construction of a specialized
state-of-the-art submersible for the
deepest solo man dive in history the
whole sub actually squeezes down almost
three inches in length when it gets to
the bottom of the ocean just because of
the pressure the sphere that I’m in
actually actually shrinks the the window
that I look out actually pushes in
toward me under 16,000 pounds per square
inch of pressure
Cameron’s spent more than three hours in
the lowest point of the Mariana Trench
about seven miles down filming and
documenting what he saw and taking
samples it was a very lunar a very
desolate place very very isolated my
feeling was one of complete isolation
from all of humanity I mean I felt like
I literally in the space of one day have
gone to another planet and come back
armed with an 8-foot panel of LED lights
and several cameras Cameron will be able
to share with the rest of the world a
part of the planet that is virtually
unknown
the animals that live there are adapted
to this extreme pressure this total
darkness
they usually wipe they have no pigment
some of them have eyes to see
bioluminescence some of them have no
eyes at all it’s completely alien world
Cameron is the first human to reach the
deepest point of the Mariana Trench in
more than 50 years
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