James Cameron Donates His Tricked-Out Deep-Ocean Sub to Science

Monday, April 29, 2013 - 07:00 in Astronomy & Space

Before setting his sites once again on the far-off moon Pandora for the next Avatar adventure, filmmaker and aquanaut James Cameron has bequeathed arguably his greatest technological accomplishment to science. Cameron’s DEEPSEA CHALLENGER submarine, which he drove to the deepest part of this planet last March, will in June arrive at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in Massachusetts, ultimately helping researchers there better understand life in Earth’s last unexplored frontier. [More]

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