The undersea craft, which cost Mr. Cameron, the maker of hit movies like “Titanic” and “Avatar,” roughly $10 million of his own money, will be used mainly to aid the design of advanced vehicles and technologies, rather than for routinely carrying scientists into the sea’s depths. (more…)
Titanic Director Donates Deep-Sea Craft to Institute
The Hollywood director James Cameron is donating the craft that he built and last year rode into the sea’s deepest spot to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, as part of a new collaboration meant to speed ocean exploration, the partners announced early Tuesday.
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