Category: Nature
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Cameron made it: Deepest Solo Dive in History !
At noon, local time (10 p.m. ET), James Cameron’s “vertical torpedo” sub broke the surface of the western Pacific, carrying the National Geographic explorer and filmmaker back from the Mariana Trench’s Challenger Deep—Earth’s deepest, and perhaps most alien, realm. Read more here on National Geographic.
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He did it, James Cameron is at the bottom of the Mariana Trench
Exciting news here on Twitter, James Cameron tweets from the deepest point in the world’s oceans, and he will have 3D pictures to show for it. Read also official news on deepseachallenge.com. [blackbirdpie url=”https://twitter.com/#!/JimCameron/status/184036733959143425″]
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Dive Day for James Cameron and the DeepSea Challenger
Exciting news here on Twitter, it is ‘dive day’ for the DeepSea Challenger piloted by James Cameron, going down into the Mariana Trench as 2nd expedition ever in human history, and first solo. [blackbirdpie url=”https://twitter.com/#!/JimCameron/status/183695650809069570″]
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James Cameron may try for the Mariana Trench this weekend
Exciting news, the Deepsea Challenger has already been to the deepest point in the ocean, unmanned and unscathed, and now James Cameron might be just hours from attempting his unprecedented solo dive to the Mariana Trench. If seas remain calm, which is a big if, around those corners of the world’s oceans. Read more here…
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Real close encounter with a gray whale and calf (as in touching)
The gray whales in San Ignacio Lagoon frequently approach small tourist boats, seeking the human interaction. While they could easily avoid the people, whose small boats are not allowed to closely approach whales, they actually seem to enjoy making contact. That woman is a bit too excited, but nice video anyhoo. See oneworldoneocean.org
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Jeez, Cameron’s deep sea sub is a spinning fast-diving vertical thorpedo
This sounds like the stuff that severe seasickness is made of: He calls it a vertical torpedo. The axis of his 24-foot-long craft is upright rather than horizontal, speeding the plunge. His goal is to fall and rise as quickly as possible so he can maximize his time investigating the dark seabed. He wants to…
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Sounding the deepest spot on Earth with sonar
The day is getting ever closer, when James Cameron will go for the second ever dive down into the deepest abyss available, according to one commenter on Facebook as soon as weather conditions are calm enough to allow them to navigate to the dive site and make the descent.
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Mom saves daughter from shark attack
Valeh Levy and her 15-year-old daughter, Sydney, were paddling on their surfboards Wednesday off New Smyrna Beach in Florida when a shark suddenly pulled the teen underwater — twice. Levy pulled her daughter onto her board. Read more here on ABC News “It was to me like a scene out of ‘Jaws,’ where the girl’s…