Director James Cameron holds the world record for a single dive Bashny.Net

A few days ago on a specially constructed single unit celebrated director came down to a depth of 8166 meters. And in the coming weeks he plans to visit the deepest point on Earth - the bottom of the Mariana Trench, where people have visited only once, with 52 years ago.

March 6th, 2012, the project Deepsea Challenge, James Cameron made a record single dive near Papua New Guinea.





It served as a crucial test for a unique single bathyscaphe Deepsea Challenger, designed to achieve the bottom of the Mariana Trench, in particular, its deepest point - Challenger abyss located in the 10,994 meters below the sea surface (according to the measurements in 2011).

via factroom.ru