Meant to post this two weeks ago, but was a tad busy.
Anyways, it's an absolutely amazing documentary about a topic that has fascinated me since childhood, the exploration of the Mariana's Trench, the deepest part of the ocean (7 miles deep). Besides the spellbinding footage from Cameron's dive to the actual titular trench, the footage of his deep-sea dives to the wrecks of the Titanic and Bismarck and to the bottom of the 27,000-foot New Britain Trench, and the deep-sea denizens encountered during these journeys, is absolutely fascinating.
It's also cool to see an appearance by retired US Navy officer Don Walsh, who, as a young lieutenant in 1960, was part of the only other manned expedition to the bottom of the Marianas Trench, in the bathyscaph Trieste alongside Jacques Picard (son of bathyscaph inventor Auguste Picard). As an aside, Walsh was actually chair of the Marine Biology Department at USC when I was a student there--I now kick myself for not looking him up when I had the chance.
A must-see (unless the subject of deep-sea exploration bores you, of course).
Anyways, it's an absolutely amazing documentary about a topic that has fascinated me since childhood, the exploration of the Mariana's Trench, the deepest part of the ocean (7 miles deep). Besides the spellbinding footage from Cameron's dive to the actual titular trench, the footage of his deep-sea dives to the wrecks of the Titanic and Bismarck and to the bottom of the 27,000-foot New Britain Trench, and the deep-sea denizens encountered during these journeys, is absolutely fascinating.
It's also cool to see an appearance by retired US Navy officer Don Walsh, who, as a young lieutenant in 1960, was part of the only other manned expedition to the bottom of the Marianas Trench, in the bathyscaph Trieste alongside Jacques Picard (son of bathyscaph inventor Auguste Picard). As an aside, Walsh was actually chair of the Marine Biology Department at USC when I was a student there--I now kick myself for not looking him up when I had the chance.
A must-see (unless the subject of deep-sea exploration bores you, of course).
