James Cameron relives his heart-stopping descent to the deepest part of the ocean.

[dipsydoodle]

‘I’ve had years to contemplate this moment, and I won’t say there hasn’t been dread’: James Cameron relives his heart-stopping descent to the deepest part of the ocean in submersible just 43-inches wide

Seven miles beneath the surface of the western Pacific, the Mariana Trench is deeper than Mount Everest is high.

The director described the weeks spent imagining 'all the things that could go wrong' before the descent, but said that on the day of the dive his apprehension was replaced by 'childlike excitement'.

The cramped pilot's chamber, into which he was crammed 'like a walnut in its shell', was not claustrophobic, but 'snug and comforting', Cameron writes in the magazine.

'I feel surprisingly calm. I am wrapped in the sub, a part of it and it a part of me, an extension of my ideas and dreams,' the director said of the day of the dive.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2330848/James-Cameron-relives-heart-stopping-descent-deepest-ocean-submersible-just-43-inches-wide.html#ixzz2ULf4msgP

[MuseRider]

1. I don't think I can even read this

although I think it might be fascinating. I might give it a try, need more wine first!

[Control-Z]

3. I felt claustrophobic

just thinking about reading it.

[lovemydog]

2. great article

Tanks for sharing. It must be pitch black seven miles down. A canyon twice the size of the grad canyon - awesome.