Amazing. Has been ages since the last time i bougth a printed magazine, i can't wait for this issue of NG
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James Cameron successfully dives to deepest point on Earth
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Amazing. Has been ages since the last time i bougth a printed magazine, i can't wait for this issue of NG
Karma Kramer
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Are there any updates on the dive yet?
Phat Michael
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Did cameron take those titanic photos or did someone else?
Team Filler
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This. It's played for comedic effect, but helps justify my belief that Arnold is an underrated actor.
ComputerMKII
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http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2012/04/titanic/sides-text
I don't recall James Cameron exploring the Titanic wreck in 2010.
Figures. :\ Cameron, you will have my monies once more.
Kung Fu Jedi
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I'm sure we'll get some updates and video once the expedition is complete. Of course they're going to save the best stuff for Cameron's film, which will likely be co-branded with Nat Geo, but they'll share a few things.
I'm on the mailing list for the press releases on this expedition, so if I get anything I'll be sure to share. I had an embargoed press release a day or two before the dive became common knowledge.
I'm on the mailing list for the press releases on this expedition, so if I get anything I'll be sure to share. I had an embargoed press release a day or two before the dive became common knowledge.
ComputerMKII
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Edit: Here's a recap:
Balls of steel.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...ron-descends-the-Pacifics-Mariana-trench.htmlTo boldly go under: Director James Cameron embarks on his record-breaking descent SEVEN miles to the bottom of Pacific's Mariana trench
By Rob Waugh
- Aims to be first human to visit bottom since January 1960
- Solo submersible so cramped he can't move his arms
- First of several competing missions to deepest point on Earth
- Mariana Trench is deeper than Everest is high
- The descent takes about 90 minutes
- Cameron will film the journey for a feature-length documentary
UPDATED: 16:00 GMT, 22 March 2012
Avatar director James Cameron's attempt to be the first human being in 50 years to visit the deepest point on Earth - the bottom of the Mariana Trench, seven miles down in the Pacific - is under way.
The director aims to become the first of at least four teams racing to the ocean floor, an icy, alien environment with pressures 1,000 times higher than the surface.
Many liken the journey to man's steps into space. 'The deep trenches are the last unexplored frontier on our planet,' says Cameron.
James Cameron emerging from the hatch of Deepsea Challenger - the tiny submarine the director will use to travel to the bottom of the Pacific's Mariana trench
James Cameron's team prepare Deepsea Challenger for its first test in the ocean at Jervis Bay, south of Sydney, Australia. In the coming weeks the submersible will travel to the bottom of the Mariana Trench
James Cameron (far right) and Don Walsh (far left), who was aboard the only other successful manned descent to the Mariana Trench in 1960
Time for deep exploration: A one-off Rolex capable of withstanding pressure down to 12,000m is attached to the side of the sub
The only people who have ever reached the bottom of the Mariana Trench were Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh, who used the huge, blimp-shaped submersible Trieste in January 1960.
The director recently completed a test dive of five miles in Papua New Guinea, using his solo submersible Deep Sea Challenger.
Cameron had to build his own vehicle for the attempt - a craft capable of withstanding 1,000 atmospheres of pressure.
Cameron is inside a pilot sphere - the shape most able to resist pressure - so cramped he will not be able to extend his arms.
He will be the sole occupant in a complex, 24-foot-long craft made primarily of highly specialised glass foam.
The descent will take around 90 minutes and he will spend around six hours at the bottom, filming the attempt for a 3D documentary.
A unique Rolex watch will also be journeying to the bottom with Cameron.
Rolex sent a watch down with the Trieste in 1960 and produced another timepiece for Cameron's odyssey.
It's a complete one-off and not for sale - and is capable of withstanding the extreme pressures of the Mariana Trench - and more - right down to 12,000m.
Cameron looks set to beat rival teams to the bottom - Sir Richard Branson's Deep Flight Challenger, and DOER Marine, backed by Google's Eric Schmidt.
A Florida company, Triton submarines, are working on a submarine that will take people to the bottom for $250,000 a ticket.
'I've always dreamed of diving to the deepest place in the oceans,' says Cameron. 'For me it went from a boyhood fantasy to a real quest, like climbing Everest.'
'There is currently no commercial submersible on Earth capable of diving to the ‘full ocean depth’ of 36,000 feet. The only way to make my dream a reality was to build a new vehicle unlike any in current existence,' says Cameron.
Protection: Cameron will command the sub from a spherical cockpit - the best shape for withstanding pressure
In-water testing of the submersible that explorer and filmmaker James Cameron will pilot to the bottom of the Mariana Trench
A 'hydrographic' ship from the U.S. Navy recently mapped the Marianas trench from north to south using a 'multibeam echosounder', a standard device for mapping the ocean floor.
The ship, associated with CCOM, the Centre for Coastal and Ocean Mapping at the University of New Hampshire, mapped the whole of the Marianas Trench to a 100m resolution - including an accurate 'map' of the deepest place on earth, Challenger Deep
Cameron is an avid explorer with 72 submersible dives to his credit—51 of which were in Russian Mir submersibles to depths of up to 16,000 feet, including 33 to Titanic.
Deepsea Challenger, the submersible designed by explorer and filmmaker James Cameron and his engineering team to travel to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, is lowered into the water for testing
Deep-water testing of tthe submersible that explorer and filmmaker James Cameron will pilot to the bottom of the Mariana Trench
Deepsea Challenger undergoes deep-water testing in preparation for Cameron's dive
The measurement - using echosound - of Challenger Deep, the deepest point of the Marianas trench may be the most accurate yet
The Mariana trench: The last visitors to the bottom went there in January 1960
Balls of steel.
SCULLIBUNDO
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Appreciate the enthusiasm, Computer. But you need to stop posting articles that keep regurgitating old news with the implication that he has actually started diving yet. Every time they say 'it is underway!', they mean he has left port and is waiting on the vessel until he can begin the actual dive.
ComputerMKII
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I'm sorry. I just edited the message so that it's less misleading.
SCULLIBUNDO
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No ill will. I've just been scouring for any and all updates and a lot of articles out there are trying to do the headline thing and misinforming. That is a pretty good recap regardless.
SCULLIBUNDO
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bigtroyjon
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from 3 hours ago, he might be down there now.
His first tweet in about a year.
SCULLIBUNDO
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Oh shit oh shit oh shit!
SCULLIBUNDO
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Can a mod please change the title to reflect that the dive is happening today?
You should provide updates on your OP!
SCULLIBUNDO
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There is only the one tweet as an update so far. However, I usually feel that nobody ever goes to the OP anymore for updates. I will update with all significant info once it's release.
Nizz
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Oh my god, I can't believe this is already happening! Man, good luck to Cameron. This would be a nightmare situation for me. Deep, deep ocean. In a sub where I can't move my arms/legs much so I'd feel claustrophobic as hell.
Man's got balls of steel.
SCULLIBUNDO
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Don't forget that when you get deep enough, there is a decent chance of losing all communication and thereby becoming completely alone in the deepest, darkest place on Earth.
There's a reason they call him Iron Jim.
No one but himself down there to rely on. That would terrify me, but Jim probably wouldn't have it any other way.
National Geographic is probably hoarding the coverage for their special reporting on it.
Live updates after he gets down there won't be exciting, though.
Update 468: still no contact.
Update: 469: nope, still nothing
SCULLIBUNDO
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They will most likely lose all audio contact with him. Do you want a Bud Brigman-style commentary that comes every couple of hours, 4 minutes after it was sent?
Can't get more Canadian than the Queen though.
Vulcano's assistant
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^^^Man, I guess I was dead wrong with that submarine design I posted. This one actually looks like it could reach the bottom of the Marianas, the other looks like a toy in comparison.
sure, why not?
SCULLIBUNDO
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Vulcano's assistant
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Ancient aliens are waiting for him at the bottom.
Never really understood posts like this. When I don't give a shit about something in a thread, I don't click on the thread and certainly don't swing by for a drive by thread shitting.
It's so nice to see Cameron back on badass mode.
Tesseract
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yes! i'll take topside engineer talk. i'll take whatever they have.
Phat Michael
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No need to be sarcastic - its an honest mistake when someone posted "new HD images from the Titanic" in the "James Cameron goes to the deepest point on the sea" thread. Not a huge leap to see how i made that conclusion.
SCULLIBUNDO
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- Jim, stop rolling the cameras and start your ascent now.
- Think I'm gona sty awhile.
Angry Fork
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He's going to end up staying down there isn't he...
Phat Michael
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How can this not interest you? To me this is even more interesting then space exploration.
Why come in here just to hate on his films which really have nothing to do with this event?
Mr. Luchador
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Nicely said.
Pretty excited about the dive and exploration. Even if nothing is 'found' the fact that something is happening is great. Been a LONG time since anything exciting and interesting in exploration has happened.
No kidding.
Nizz
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That's terrifying. But the thought of more exploration of our oceans is exciting. So much unexplored territory.
SCULLIBUNDO
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Was posted yesterday. No more waiting on weather. Cameron is diving down today.
I was wondering about this. I knew he did some deep test dives, but not as deep as he's going. I'm relieved it's gone down that deep already.
Mr. Luchador
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Ah, sorry about that. Had a quick look back over the page, but clearly didn't look hard enough.
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