Mariana trench

• Titanic film director James Cameron has completed the worlds first solo dive to the deepest known point on Earth, reaching the bottom of the Pacific Oceans Mariana Trench southwest of Guam in a specially designed submarine.
(msnbc.com)
• (PhysOrg.com) -- Last month, Doug Wiens, PhD, professor of earth and planetary science at Washington University in St. Louis, was cruising the tropical waters of the western Pacific above the Mariana trench aboard the research vessel Thomas G.
(PhysOrg)
• Russia is joining the race to reach the bottom of the Mariana Trench, the deepest ocean crevice on Earth, famous explorer Artur Chilingarov has said.
(RIA Novosti)
• Robert Siegel talks to retired Navy Captain Don Walsh about the attempt by movie director James Cameron to take a submersible capsule to the bottom of the Mariana Trench — the deepest spot on Earth.
(NPR News)
• He planned to spend about six hours exploring and filming the Mariana Trench, about 200 miles southwest of the Pacific island of Guam. "All systems OK," were Cameron's first words upon reaching the bottom, according to a statement.
(Duluth News Tribune)
• Director and science nerd James Cameron is making an attempt to travel to the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the ocean. The last time someone tried this was in 1960, when Swiss oceanographer Jacques Piccard and Navy Lt.
(io9.com)
• James Camerons dive was the first attempt by humans to reach the Challenger Deep, the deepest point of the Pacifics Mariana Trench, since U.S. Navy Lt. Don Walsh and Swiss oceanographer Jacques Piccard touched bottom in January 1960.
(Minneapolis Star Tribune)
• Just two weeks ago, we reported on his previous solo-dive record of 26,791 feet (8,166m), which he handily smashed by plunging 35,756 feet (10,898m) into the Mariana Trenchs Challenger Deep southwest of Guam.
(Gizmag)
• Filmmaker and explorer James Cameron has unveiled plans to visit the deepest place on planet Earth in the coming weeks, aboard a state-of-the-art, deep-diving craft built beneath a veil of secrecy in Australia.
(Huffington Post)