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[i]Just arrived at the ocean's deepest point. Hitting bottom never felt so good. Can't wait to share what I'm seeing with you.[/i] — [URL=https://twitter.com/#!/DeepChallenge]James Cameron[/URL], after becoming the first person in history to solo dive to the deepest place on Earth, a record 35,756 feet. National Geographic [URL=http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/03/120325-james-cameron-mariana-trench-challenger-deep-deepest-science-sub/?source=link_tw20120325deepsea-jcatbottom]reports[/URL] on Cameron's journey to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, the deepest place on Earth. [i]Folded into a sub cockpit as cramped as any Apollo capsule, the National Geographic explorer and filmmaker is now investigating a seascape more alien to humans than the moon. Cameron is only the third person to reach this Pacific Ocean valley southwest of Guam — and the only one to do so solo. Hovering in what he's called a vertical torpedo, Cameron is likely collecting data, specimens, and imagery unthinkable in 1960, when the only other explorers to reach Challenger Deep returned after seeing little more than the silt stirred up by their bathyscaphe. Credit: Mark Thiessen, National Geographic After as long as six hours in the trench, Cameron — best known for creating fictional worlds on film (Avatar, Titanic, The Abyss) — is to jettison steel weights attached to the sub and shoot back to the surface. Meanwhile, the expedition's scientific support team awaits his return aboard the research ships Mermaid Sapphire and Barakuda, 7 miles (11 kilometers) up.[/i]
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