Marianas Trench Dive

[AnotherClarkey]

I am surprised that there is not more coverage of the imminent dive to the bottom of the Marianas trench by James Cameron. He certainly seems to have taken his hobby to the next level and will be only the third person ever to reach the deepest point in the ocean, assuming all goes well.

Some fascinating engineering has gone in to the submersible and it will be interesting to see what images come back.

[King Herald]

Same guy who made Avatar?? This could result in an interesting new movie, some of them critters down deep are unbelievably weird.




You'd never catch me that deep though, several tons per square inch water pressure, with no quick way out....

[AnotherClarkey]

Yep, same chap. The sub is tooled up with the latest in 3d cameras and festooned with lighting. The only other dive to make it to the bottom sat in a cloud of silt for 20 minutes and they saw virtually nothing.

[chrisj_abz]

yeah meant to start a thread on this before, couple mates of mine are on board the support vessel as ROV crew so have seen a few updates on facebook.

seen on twitter that hes now the deepest solo diver at 25550 ft. not sure i could handle being down there all on my own!

good site for updates here.

http://deepseachallenge.com/

[carreauchompeur]

TONS per square INCH? Aaaahm oot, sounds scary.

[King Herald]

carreauchompeur said:

TONS per square INCH? Aaaahm oot, sounds scary.

Yep, some 15,000psi, or 8 tons per square INCH.

[carreauchompeur]

Jeez, I'd never thought of it in quite such extreme terms. The craft must be stupendously strong to resist that...

[Halb]

Watch out for these!

[kiteless]

chrisj_abz said:

yeah meant to start a thread on this before, couple mates of mine are on board the support vessel as ROV crew so have seen a few updates on facebook.

seen on twitter that hes now the deepest solo diver at 25550 ft. not sure i could handle being down there all on my own!

good site for updates here.

http://deepseachallenge.com/

Good read, that.

A twitter feed as of 27 minutes ago reports Cameron at 32,300ft and stting bricks.

[andy_s]

Yes, reading up on this the other day when I saw it tucked away on the beeb website, I think the original drop by Trieste was perhaps more pioneering, and I can't believe it's been 60 odd years since it's been done, but I'm taking nothing away from Cameron, what a great thing to do, hats off to him.

PS - thanks for the links, bet he is stting bricks!!

[Halb]

I think he wanted to do this ever since sending Ed Harris down in The Abyss.

[carreauchompeur]

Superb, nice to see someone pushing the boundaries. Will watch with interest/morbid curiosity

[toxicated]

Twitter update


DeepChallenge DeepSea Challenge
.@JimCameron is the first person in history to solo dive to the deepest place on Earth, a record 35,756ft/10,898m #deepseachallenge
less than a minute ago

[Mark-C]

Stunning - absolutely unimaginable to me how he can cope with that. Twitter now has him at 35,576ft so I think that's him all the way there.

[Leithen]

Cameron is fixated on Bob Ballard's achievements.

[carreauchompeur]

Amazing. How long will he stay there, and how long to come back up?

[andy_s]

No - I took that as meaning he is the first solo diver to 35kft - once he gets there - twitter had him at 25kft about 12 mins ago. I think...

[Mark-C]

Mark-C said:

Stunning - absolutely unimaginable to me how he can cope with that. Twitter now has him at 35,576ft so I think that's him all the way there.

Edited to note Toxicated beat me to it and got the depth right!!

[andy_s]

andy_s said:

No - I took that as meaning he is the first solo diver to 35kft - once he gets there - twitter had him at 25kft about 12 mins ago. I think...

Oh crikey - he is there! Good effort!

[andy_s]

PW said:

You don't say?

You know what Imean...