AFTER JAMES CAMERON’S Avatar came out in 2009 and made 2.7 billion, the director found the deepest point that exists in all of earth’s oceans and, in time, he dove to it. When Cameron reached the bottom of the Mariana Trench, a couple of hundred miles off the south-west coast of Guam, in March 2012, he became the first person in history to descend the 6.8-mile 11-kilometre) distance solo, and one of only a few people to ever go that deep. Since then, others have followed—most prominently Victor Vescovo, a private-equity titan and former Naval Reserve intelligence officer turned explorer— but Cameron is adamant that none have surpassed him. Vescovo, Cameron told me, claimed he went deeper, but you can’t. So he’s basically just making shit up.”
As people sometimes do in response to Cameron’s stories, Vescovo disagrees—“I have a different scientific perspective,’ he told me, diplomatically—but even he is a fan of Cameron’s films. Like Cameron, Vescovo has made multiple dives to the wreck of the Titanic, and while returning from one of them, he emailed Cameron. I said, I watched Titanic at the Titanic.’ And he actually replied: Yeah, but I made Titanic at the Titanic.’”
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