Category: Technology
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PBS Newshour on James Cameron’s trip to the Mariana Trench
Shooting footage for a 3-D movie and a National Geographic special, filmmaker James Cameron journeyed to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean on Sunday, seven miles below the surface. Tom Clarke of Independent Television News reports on Cameron’s deep dive to the Mariana Trench’s Challenge Deep, 300 miles southwest of Guam. “He set off in…
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Davies hopes Serpentine simulator will help him win the Olympic 10K
Double Olympic medallist David Davies is hoping a revolutionary new computer game designed by students can help him claim gold at London 2012. Kept secret in British swimming for the last year, the project called Open Water Warfare is supposed to help home stars compete in the 10K, apparently by letting them practice the navigation…
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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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Danish Trials can be seen LIVE on DR.dk
The video quality is a bit dark and cloudy, but still extremely much better than nothing at all. Also, the commentators are really good, if you understand Danish ;-)
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Loughborough: Britain’s secret success factory
Scarcely anyone outside the East Midlands can point to Loughborough on a map, but if the Loughborough University were a country, with past and present students its citizens, it would have come fifth at the last Commonwealth Games – ahead of South Africa – in terms of its 44 medals won. Loughborough Swimming head coach…
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NCSA Junior Nationals to be streamed live as PPV on Ustream
Interesting concept here: NCSA Junior National Swimming Championships Tuesday, March 20 – Saturday, March 24 Price: $24.95 Ustream is proud to present live coverage of the NCSA Junior Nationals live from Orlando, FL! PPV ticket buyers will get front-row access to see 1500 competitors aged 18 and under competing under Olympic trial standards.