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The Spirit of Exploration, with James Cameron

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What Motivated You to Go to the Bottom of the Ocean?

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Charles Charles went to the bottom of the ocean and set a new world record for deepest dive. He says he did it by himself because there were too many constraints on submersibles at the time. The shape of the vessel had to be an elegant sphere, which resists pressure in water. Every 32 feet that you go down in the ocean, your brain wouldn't be there right? "You'd just be crushed like a pile of goo"

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