It's the one-year anniversary of James Cameron's expedition into the deepest crevice of the deepest place on Earth, the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench, and the director / oceanographer is celebrating generously. Today Cameron announced that he will donate his privately-developed submarine, the $10 million Deepsea Challenger, to further ocean research at the non-profit Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Masachussetts.
"Our sub is a scientific proof-of-concept, and our partnership with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is a way to provide the technology we developed to the oceanographic community," Cameron said in a statement. A longtime advocate of deep sea research, he will join Woods Hole as an adviser.
The sub took...
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