James Francis Cameron world famous film
director creats a new sensation.
On March 7, 2012, Cameron took
the Deepsea Challenger submersible to the bottom of the New Britain Trench in a five-mile-deep solo dive. On March 26, 2012, Cameron
reached the Challenger Deep, the deepest part of the Mariana Trench.
He spent more than three hours exploring the ocean floor before returning to
the surface. Cameron is the first person to accomplish the trip solo. He was
preceded by unmanned dives in 1995
and 2009, and by Jacques Piccard
and Don Walsh,
who were the first men to reach the bottom of the Challenger Deep aboard the Bathyscaphe Trieste in 1960. Cameron is making a
three-dimensional film of his dive.
Cameron
descended 35,756 feet (6.77 miles/10.89km) to reach 'Challenger Deep' in the
Mariana Trench, is deeper than Mount Everest is high.
Cameron is a member of the NASA Advisory Council and is working on the project to put
cameras on an upcoming manned Mars
mission. Cameron has also given speeches and raised money for the Mars Society,
a non-profit organization lobbying for the colonization of Mars.Cameron became an expert on deep-sea
exploration in conjunction with his research and underwater filming surrounding
The Abyss (1989)
and Titanic (1997).Won 1998 Oscar Award For Best Director.
Cameron (born August 16,
1954) is a Canadian film director,
film producer,
deep-sea explorer, screenwriter,
visual artist
and editor. His
writing and directing work includes The Terminator
(1984), Aliens (1986), The Abyss (1989), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), True Lies
(1994), Titanic (1997), Dark Angel (2000–02), and Avatar (2009). In the time between making Titanic and Avatar,
Cameron spent several years creating many documentary films (specifically
underwater documentaries) and co-developed the digital 3D Fusion Camera System. Described by a biographer as
part-scientist and part-artist, Cameron has also contributed to underwater filming and remote vehicle technologies. On March 26,
2012, Cameron reached the bottom of the Mariana Trench,
the deepest part of the ocean, in the Deepsea Challenger submersible. He was the first person to do
this in a solo descent, and only the third person to do so ever.
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