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Deepsea Challenger (DCV 1) was a 7.3-metre (24 ft) deep-diving submersible designed to reach the bottom of the Challenger Deep, the deepest-known point on Earth.On 26 March 2012, Canadian film director James Cameron piloted the craft to accomplish this goal in the second crewed dive reaching the Challenger Deep.
In 1960, Don Walsh and Jacques Piccard were the first two humans to reach Challenger Deep, completing that dive as a team. [4] 52 years later, James Cameron became the first person to solo dive that point. Piccard, Walsh and Cameron remained the only people to reach the Challenger Deep until 2019, when regular dives in DSV Limiting Factor began.
In this role, on March 7, 2012, he dived five miles deep to the bottom of the New Britain Trench with the Deepsea Challenger. [127] 19 days later, Cameron reached the Challenger Deep, the deepest part of the Mariana Trench. [128] [129] [130] He spent more than three hours exploring the ocean floor, becoming the first to accomplish the trip alone.
In 2012, Cameron piloted the Deepsea Challenger into the Challenger Deep — the deepest known part of the seabed. "I've been down [to the Titanic ] many times," Cameron told ABC News, placing his ...
In 2012, Cameron became the first person to solo pilot a sub to the world’s deepest point, Challenger Deep, in the Mariana Trench, 11km beneath the ocean’s surface.
Allum designed the Deepsea Challenger submarine that took James Cameron to the Challenger Deep, the lowest point on Earth and the bottom of the Mariana Trench, 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) below sea level. This record-breaking exploration took place on 26 March 2012. [2]
James Cameron’s insights into the Titan submersible tragedy caught many by surprise. But the ‘Titanic’ filmmaker has been immersed in the deep-sea exploration community for decades, Bevan ...
After his father made the world’s first trip to Challenger Deep aboard the Trieste in January 1960, no-one returned to the site until 2012, whenTitanic filmmaker James Cameron made the first ...