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History Historical Geography

James Cameron’s Last Mysteries of the Titanic

by (author) Joseph Macinnis Dr.

Publisher
Key Porter Books
Initial publish date
Jan 2008
Category
Historical Geography, General
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781552637425
    Publish Date
    Jan 2008
    List Price
    $40.00

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Eight years after making his blockbuster movie Titanic, director James Cameron leads a team of sub pilots, scientists, and filmmakers two miles beneath the Atlantic ocean to explore the last unseen spaces of the worlds most famous shipwreck. During the month-long expedition, he used two $20 million research subs, four mini-robots, and a new seafloor-to-surface communication system to create unparalleled images for a 90-minute Discovery Channel to be broadcast this fall.Veteran ocean explorer Dr. Joseph MacInnis follows Cameron and his crew as they spend a year preparing for the expeditionrefitting subs, testing robots and building a radical, heave-compensated fiber optic communications system. Then he joins them aboard a ship and records the struggle to overcome a series of lethal physical and technical challenges. Through the words of Cameron, his team, and 80 photographs and illustrations, he chronicles the fears and frustrations of exploring the inner hallways and rooms of a shipwreck located 12,000 feet under the sea.James Camerons Last Mysteries of Titanic is the true story of the most challenging deep-sea expedition ever conducted. Its an intimate look at the groundbreaking technologies that are opening up Earths final frontier and contains astonishing new information about the interior of the Titanic.The book will feature simulated, 3-D computer renderings of previously unexplored sections of the ship, including the Marconi Room, the Silent Room and the Turkish Baths.

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