Mar. 30, 2012
Half A Century Later, A Return To Challenger Deep
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The film director James Cameron has just completed a dive to Challenger Deep, the deepest point on Earth at nearly 36,000 feet under the sea. His manned descent is the first in 52 years, since the oceanographers Don Walsh and Jacques Piccard explored the Mariana Trench in the bathyscaphe Trieste. |
Guests
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Doug Bartlett
Chief Scientist, Deepsea Challenge
Professor, Marine Microbial Genetics
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
University of California, San Diego
San Diego, California -
Captain Don Walsh
Oceanographer
Honorary President, The Explorers Club
President, International Maritime Inc.
Myrtle Point, Oregon
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