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The ship's light allowed them to see what they described as a dark brown "diatomaceous ooze" covering the sea floor, along with shrimp and some fish that appeared to resemble flounder and sole.
Originally posted by Phage
This is not the first manned expedition to the Challenger Deep. The bathyscaphe Trieste reached the bottom in 1960.
The ship's light allowed them to see what they described as a dark brown "diatomaceous ooze" covering the sea floor, along with shrimp and some fish that appeared to resemble flounder and sole.
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Originally posted by charlie77
good, now can he make terminator 3 and alien 3 please
John Cameron's recent projects have included undersea documentaries on the Bismarck (Expedition: Bismarck, 2002) and the Titanic (Ghosts of the Abyss (2003, in IMAX 3D) and Tony Robinson's Titanic Adventure (2005))
Originally posted by Crakeur
this can turn out one of two ways, (I'm not including the disaster scenario)
1. They discover all kinds of insane life forms, creatures we never thought could exist.
2. They discover that it is deep, dark, cold and pretty much void of life at the bottom of the trench.
I'm assuming #1 is the more likely scenario. I hope the new life forms aren't all miscroscopic shrimp and we learn that there's some large, impressive life living in implausible conditions.
Originally posted by Crakeur
reply to post by Nicolas Flamel
I saw that and I'm hoping that they find more life than that. a large single cell blob and a bunch of strange sponges and jelly fish are cool but what would be wild would be some large fish that reminds us that we haven't a clue what's going on outside our peripheral vision. If we find the unexplored areas of our own planet teeming with unknown life, perhaps this will prompt further exploration into other areas in and around the rock we call home.
Originally posted by GogoVicMorrow
reply to post by Crakeur
For the sake of fun though.. imagine being down there 7 miles down in a tiny vessel and turning on some flood lights and seeing something huge flush off into the dark.
I only tweet when I have something worth saying. Today is the culmination of a 7 yr project. It's finally dive day.
@JimCameron just passed the #Titanic depth at around 4,305 meters
"RELEASE, RELEASE, RELEASE!" @JimCameron's last words before starting the descent to the Mariana Trench
@JimCameron has started his descent to the ocean's deepest point. Stay tuned for updates from the deep.