#8 | Diving Deep

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Tv & Film, Drama, Film History, Fiction

5 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

James makes several dangerous dives to the Atlantic Ocean floor to film the Titanic and clears the way for his next feature film.

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0:00.0	Really choppy waters out there.
0:14.0	It'll settle down soon.
0:16.0	September 7th, 1995.
0:19.0	James Cameron was worried he was getting too old for this,
0:22.0	embarking on the most perilous underwater journey of his life,
0:26.2	a mission to the remains of the Titanic, so secretive only the crew on board and a few executives at Fox
0:31.8	knew about it. They even had a decoy title for the project. They were
0:36.0	all instructed to use the name Planet Ice if anyone asked questions. I told you to quiet down.
0:51.0	you to quiet down. James was scared. He knew any dive this deep could end in disaster.
0:55.3	What did he say? No idea. Their team was aboard a massive Russian research vessel, the Keltish. A large and
1:06.4	specialized crew had sailed to GPS coordinates nearly halfway across the Atlantic Ocean.
1:12.1	When they arrived, the plan was to pop down a
1:14.4	submersible and descend more than 12,000 feet to water pressures greater than
1:19.0	the force of a bomb. James pretended to be all business, rehearsing his dives with a small crew but he was
1:26.1	fighting off the nerves. Those better be well lit. You know it'll be pitch black down there.
1:31.6	Oh they are.
1:32.6	These are HMI's.
1:33.6	We'll light her up good.
1:34.6	Just don't want the encasements to break, you know?
1:36.6	The pressure.
1:37.6	Yeah, I could puncture this up.
1:38.6	Huh.
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