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    Default Race to the bottom of the ocean

    I'm amazed the only person to have reached the bottom was over 60 years ago.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17013285

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    interesed on the james cameron vessel due to having more cameras since there is very little footage of those places,but who knows if the place is more barren than we know

    and yes I expect giant monsters to be found so I am crossing my fingers

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    There are two things (beside nekkid women) on TV that will draw my interest more like most other stuff, and those are documentations about either space (exploration) or the deep sea. Amazing worlds with lots of unknown secrets to be discovered.

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    Heavy lead weight.
    Rope
    Let the race begin.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RJMC View Post
    interesed on the james cameron vessel due to having more cameras since there is very little footage of those places,but who knows if the place is more barren than we know

    and yes I expect giant monsters to be found so I am crossing my fingers
    I admire what James Cameron is doing, but the videos he makes of his underwater explorations are such complete and total self-rimjobs. He spends more time interviewing the crew (who all thank him for his generosity) and filming himself looking at things than he does showing you what the **** he's seeing down there. Imagine watching someone discover new and crazy life forms, exclaiming how awesome and alien they are, and not showing you at all. In a movie.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Alpheus View Post
    Heavy lead weight.
    Rope
    Let the race begin.
    How much rope?

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    It's only a matter of time before somebody wakes up Cthulhu

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    Osama did it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Leaper View Post
    How much rope?
    Enough to tie the lead around somebodies neck.

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    Had written a long post questioning the need for manned submersibles over ROVs. Forum software ate it.

    So instead I'll just request that the kind aquanauts take lots of cool pictures of crazy Jellyfish. Thank you.

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    Imagine watching someone discover new and crazy life forms, exclaiming how awesome and alien they are, and not showing you at all. In a movie.
    Been done. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0362270/

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    James Cameron Completes Record-Breaking Mariana Trench Dive

    Solo sub dive is deepest ever.

    Ker Than for National Geographic News
    Updated 11:40 p.m. ET, March 25, 2012


    At noon, local time (10 p.m. ET), James Cameron's "vertical torpedo" sub broke the surface of the western Pacific, carrying the National Geographic explorer and filmmaker back from the Mariana Trench's Challenger Deep—Earth's deepest, and perhaps most alien, realm.

    The first human to reach the 6.8-mile-deep (11-kilometer-deep) undersea valley solo, Cameron arrived at the bottom with the tech to collect scientific data, specimens, and visions unthinkable in 1960, when the only other manned Challenger Deep dive took place, according to members of the National Geographic expedition.

    Complete story: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...s-science-sub/

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    The Sub
    http://deepseachallenge.com/the-sub/



    James Cameron Tweeted From Seven Miles Under The Sea

    Amy Odell, BuzzFeed Staff

    http://www.buzzfeed.com/amyodell/jam...es-under-the-s




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    bet ya the footage will be mostly of a barren place whit very few lifeforms

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    Quote Originally Posted by RJMC View Post
    bet ya the footage will be mostly of a barren place whit very few lifeforms
    You mean like Detroit?

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