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Deep-sea exploration 深海探索 The age of Aquarius 1 宝瓶 时代1 Inner space is almost as hard to explore as outer space. 探太空难，察深海亦不易。 JAMES CAMERON knows how to make a splash. Literally. On March 25th the director of TheTerminator , Titanic and Avatar plunged into the Challenger Deep2 of the Mariana Trench, 500km from Guam. When he reached the bottom, he sent a self-congratulatorytweet, and then tootled about for a couple of hours before taking Deepsea Challenger, hislime-green one-man submarine, back up the 11km to the surface. 詹姆斯卡梅隆知道怎么制造轰动。确实是这样。3月25日，这位执导过 终结者 、 泰坦尼克 和 阿凡达 的导演来到了距关岛500千米的马里亚纳海沟，一头扎进了挑战者深渊2 。当他到达海底的时候，他发了一条庆祝自己的推特，接着又唠叨了大概两个小时，才上浮11千米将他石灰青色的单人潜艇-深海挑战者号带出海面。 This venture certainly scores high in the jaw-dropping department. The only other people toplumb the Challenger Deep-as its name suggests, the most profound point in the oceanwere Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh, who did so in 1960, in a vessel called Trieste. Thelatest dive, however, was not very successful on the scientific front. It brought back nospecimens. | 
