James Cameron -- director of Titanic, Avatar, and a little movie called Aliens -- is planning a dive to the Mariana Trench and he's taking a RED EPIC with him.

Cameron has been on more than 30 deepsea dives but this one is the deepest ever and to a depth only 2 human beings have been to previously. The last voyage this deep was made in 1960 in the US Navy bathyscape, 'Trieste', by two pilots. Cameron will travel in a one-person submersible that's been 8 years in the making. The small craft dives vertically and has 2.5 inch walls tested to withstand more than 16,000 psi. Naturally, it's packed with tech:

"Two cylinders of compressed oxygen and a carbon dioxide scrubber can keep him breathing for up to 56 hours. A touchscreen readout, similar to those found in some aircraft, will provide constantly updated information and status on most of the 180 systems that will be in operation on a typical dive. He'll control the 12 thrusters that maneuver the sub with a joystick and see what's going on outside the sphere's thick, conical viewport on a viewscreen fed by a Red Epic 5K camera and wide angle lens. The 19-mile (30 km) range of the sub's communication system should easily keep him in contact with the surface."

We're proud to be part of such an historical exploration and are excited to see what Cameron discovers.

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