Cameron Donates Deepsea Challenger to Oceanographic Institute
Rhonda Moniz
March 26, 2013
Filmmaker James Cameron recently formed a partnership with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Woods Hole Massachusetts. The partnership is designed to stimulate advances in ocean science and technology and build on the historic breakthroughs of the 2012 Cameron-led DEEPSEA CHALLENGE expedition exploring deep-ocean trenches. The announcement comes on the one-year anniversary of Cameron’s unprecedented solo dive to 35,787 feet, almost 11,000 meters, to the deepest place on Earth—the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench—in the vertically-deployed vehicle he and his team engineered, the DEEPSEA CHALLENGER submersible system and science platform.