{"id":5025,"date":"2012-03-10T07:08:48","date_gmt":"2012-03-10T07:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newspaper.ctsi-logistics.com\/?p=5025"},"modified":"2012-03-10T07:08:48","modified_gmt":"2012-03-10T07:08:48","slug":"filmmaker-cameron-plans-record-7-mile-ocean-dive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/filmmaker-cameron-plans-record-7-mile-ocean-dive\/","title":{"rendered":"Filmmaker Cameron plans record 7-mile ocean dive"},"content":{"rendered":"

WASHINGTON<\/strong> (AP)-A calm James Cameron has broken his own record with the world’s deepest solo submarine dive, plunging 5.1 miles (8.2 kilometers) in the Pacific Ocean near Papua New Guinea, the filmmaker said Thursday.<\/p>\n

But that’s nothing. Later this month he says he plans to descend to the deepest place on Earth.<\/p>\n

Cameron is aiming to plunge to the bottom of Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench of the Pacific Ocean, 200 miles southwest of Guam. It’s 6.8 miles (11 kilometers) deep. Humans have been there only once before when a two-man U.S. Navy team went for just 20 minutes in 1960.<\/p>\n

The \u201cAvatar\u201d and \u201cTitanic\u201d filmmaker said he wasn’t frightened when he dove nearly that far in a practice run Wednesday that lasted 3.5 hours on the bottom.<\/p>\n

\u201cCertainly not nervous or scared during the dive,\u201d Cameron told The Associated Press in a ship-to-shore phone interview. \u201cYou tend to be a little apprehensive ahead of the dive about what could go wrong. When you are actually on the dive you have to trust the engineering was done right.\u201d<\/p>\n

Later, he acknowledged that the bone-crushing pressure at five miles and seven miles deep \u201cis in the back of your mind.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cameron is using a one-man, 12-ton lime green sub that he helped design called Deepsea Challenger. He is partnering with the National Geographic Society, where he is an explorer-in-residence.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe deep trenches are the last unexplored frontier on our planet, with scientific riches enough to fill a hundred years of exploration,\u201d Cameron said in an earlier statement.<\/p>\n

Cameron, who has been an oceanography enthusiast since childhood, has made 72 deep-sea submersible dives, including 33 to the Titanic, the subject of his 1997 blockbuster. A 3-D version of \u201cTitanic\u201d comes out April 4, timed to the 100th anniversary of the ship’s sinking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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