Explorer says he reached the deepest part of the ocean. James Cameron disagrees. - NBCNewsMACH
In April, explorer and multimillionaire Victor Vescovo navigated a submersible miles below the ocean surface into the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean, claiming to break a record for the deepest solo dive ever. But the previous record holder, filmmaker James Cameron, begs to differ.Mariana Trench
. Back in 1960, oceanographers Don Walsh and Jacques Piccard were the first people to reach the bottom of the trench. But in 2012, Cameron became the first person to reach it alone, breaking the record for deepest solo dive ever. Vescovo, as part of the Five Deeps Expedition, claimed to have broken that record in April, attaining a depth of 35,853 feet , or 52 feet deeper than Cameron reached in 2012.
"What he's done is quite remarkable," Cameron told The New York Times."Where I take exception is his saying he went deeper." You can't go any deeper because the Challenger Deep is"flat" and"featureless," Cameron said.This claim comes from his own observations from his 2012 dive and that of a robot sent down by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in 2009, according to the Times.
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