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Cameron to Walsh on Record 8,000-Meter Dive: You’d Have Loved It

March 8, 2012
Deepsea Challenge

The following is an email from James Cameron to Don Walsh, co-pilot of the Trieste…

March 4, 2012
Dr. Joe MacInnis

Today, the DEEPSEA CHALLENGER became the world’s deepest diving submersible. But the planned 26,247-foot (8,000-meter) dive ended abruptly before the sub could reach the floor of the New Britain Trench.

March 2, 2012
Dr. Joe MacInnis

A sprawling gray raincloud moves in from the west and hangs over the bay for most of the afternoon. The intermittent rain—more like a Scottish mist than a tropical downpour—brings welcome relief from the sun and the heat. After the rain, slim ghosts of steam rise out of the dense green hills.