Tag: James Cameron
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Sunrise : Australian Swimming in turmoil
Six swimmers accused of inappropriate behaviour and abuse of prescription drugs are due to hold a press conference today. Derryn Hinch and Howard Sattler discuss the possible fallout. Via the17thman And The Sunrise team discuss the swimmers who are accused of misdemeanors, and Richard Branson’s search for an Australian Virgin.
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PBS Newshour on James Cameron’s trip to the Mariana Trench
Shooting footage for a 3-D movie and a National Geographic special, filmmaker James Cameron journeyed to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean on Sunday, seven miles below the surface. Tom Clarke of Independent Television News reports on Cameron’s deep dive to the Mariana Trench’s Challenge Deep, 300 miles southwest of Guam. “He set off in…
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Cameron made it: Deepest Solo Dive in History !
At noon, local time (10 p.m. ET), James Cameron’s “vertical torpedo” sub broke the surface of the western Pacific, carrying the National Geographic explorer and filmmaker back from the Mariana Trench’s Challenger Deep—Earth’s deepest, and perhaps most alien, realm. Read more here on National Geographic.
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He did it, James Cameron is at the bottom of the Mariana Trench
Exciting news here on Twitter, James Cameron tweets from the deepest point in the world’s oceans, and he will have 3D pictures to show for it. Read also official news on deepseachallenge.com. [blackbirdpie url=”https://twitter.com/#!/JimCameron/status/184036733959143425″]
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Dive Day for James Cameron and the DeepSea Challenger
Exciting news here on Twitter, it is ‘dive day’ for the DeepSea Challenger piloted by James Cameron, going down into the Mariana Trench as 2nd expedition ever in human history, and first solo. [blackbirdpie url=”https://twitter.com/#!/JimCameron/status/183695650809069570″]
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James Cameron may try for the Mariana Trench this weekend
Exciting news, the Deepsea Challenger has already been to the deepest point in the ocean, unmanned and unscathed, and now James Cameron might be just hours from attempting his unprecedented solo dive to the Mariana Trench. If seas remain calm, which is a big if, around those corners of the world’s oceans. Read more here…
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Jeez, Cameron’s deep sea sub is a spinning fast-diving vertical thorpedo
This sounds like the stuff that severe seasickness is made of: He calls it a vertical torpedo. The axis of his 24-foot-long craft is upright rather than horizontal, speeding the plunge. His goal is to fall and rise as quickly as possible so he can maximize his time investigating the dark seabed. He wants to…
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Sounding the deepest spot on Earth with sonar
The day is getting ever closer, when James Cameron will go for the second ever dive down into the deepest abyss available, according to one commenter on Facebook as soon as weather conditions are calm enough to allow them to navigate to the dive site and make the descent.
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James Cameron completed an 8,000-meter dive this week (!)
The following is an excerpt from an email from James Cameron to Don Walsh, co-pilot of the bathyscaphe Trieste, following Cameron’s successful (and record-breaking) 8,000-meter solo submarine dive in the “Deepsea Challenger” to the bottom of the New Britain Trench, Wednesday. Don Walsh will be joining the expedition in Guam, prior to Cameron’s 11,000-meter dive…