It’s no secret that James Cameron loves the sea. He directed TITIANIC, a historical movie about the tragic sinking of the luxury liner (which, by the way, will be released as a 3D movie on April 6th.) The famous director has even dived several times to visit the underwater wreck. But this month, he plans on taking things to a whole new level when he will squish himself into a mini submarine – that he built himself,like many of his cameras and prop sets – and plunge into the Challenger Deep.
The Challenger Deep is part of the Mariana Trench (the deepest seabed in the world…not the Canadian band.) Nobody has ever gone as deep as Cameron plans to go, mostly because it’s extremely dangerous. Two people have actually died on similar trips. The area has never really been explored, so who knows what sort of terrifying sea monsters live down there.
So why on earth would an extremely rare and talented film director want to do something like this? James Cameron says that he finds it fascinating to see things that no human being has ever seen before.
During the six hours that he will spend under water alone (the submarine can’t fit more than one person, some recording equipment and a couple of protein bars), Cameron will collect biological samples of the creatures and plants that dwell in the Challenger Deep, using a special tool that sucks things from the water and into the submarine. If all goes well, he plans to make two documentaries about his deep sea escapade.
We wish James Cameron all the best and desperately hope that he won’t get eaten by a giant, submarine crushing, carnivorous fish.