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Deepsea Challenge 3D
2014 · Film · documentary · 90 min
Directed by Raymond Quint, Andrew Wight, John Bruno
Described as being a film about determination, danger and the ocean’s greatest depths, James Cameron's "Deepsea Challenge 3D" tells the story of Cameron’s journey to fulfill his boyhood dream of becoming an explorer. The movie offers a unique insight into Cameron's world as he makes that dream reality – and makes history – by becoming the first person to travel solo to the deepest point on the planet.
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If you get the chance to watch Deepsea Challenge[1], it's worth the time. They were under a lot of pressure, which James Cameron was very proud of and the source of. They had more problems then you think, but was able to make it work.
[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2332883/
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As an example YT Movies>Free just released James Cameron's Doc: Deepsea Challenge right after the Titan implosion. This type of realtime, zeitgeist curation happens all the time in their "free movie section" If you are starting from 0 in the submersible space great way to break the ice and start to grasp what that type of exploration entails. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZD_nbS1_II
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In the "Deepsea Challenge" documentary (2014), Don Walsh (one of the two men that made the dive with Trieste) tells James Cameron that "if you can hear a crack it means you're still alive, might as well keep on with the dive" (paraphrasing). So when Cameron is doing a test dive he hears a loud noise and indeed just keeps going. Personally, I'd wet my pants right there and cry for my mother. These gentlemen are built different I guess.
If you haven’t seen Deepsea Challenge, the movie about James Cameron building and taking a sub into the Challenger Deep, I highly recommend it.
Watch the Deepsea Challenge documentary about James Cameron's descent to the bottom of the Mariana Trench. There's very little life due to a lack of energy and nutrients.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt2332883/