William J. Broad's article for the New York Times is one of the best on JAMES CAMERON'S TRIP, which after seven years of planning, and a couple weeks delay due to rough seas, was cut short due to a leak. The pressure seven miles down is intense, the leak was to a hydraulic gear, but this layman scientist has reported that there was little to no visible life that far down.
"No government can send people so deep." His team includes scientists from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the University of Hawaii... And National Geographic was a sponsor.
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