Few disaster films are as iconic as James Cameron’s Titanic. The 195-minute epic sailed into cinematic history as the first ...

When James Cameron gazes long into his groundbreaking 1989 film “The Abyss,” his “Abyss” also gazes back into him. He sees it as a director and deep-sea explorer now 34 years wiser, one ...

The vessel was designed to reach the bottom of the ocean’s deepest point, known as the Challenger Deep. In 2012, Cameron led a successful mission in the vessel.

In 2012, Cameron became the first person to solo pilot a sub to the world’s deepest point, Challenger Deep, in the Mariana Trench, 11km beneath the ocean’s surface.

Deep-sea explorer and Academy Award-winning filmmaker James Cameron sits in a scale model of the Deepsea Challenger's pilot chamber at an exhibition about his history-making ocean expeditions in ...

Why he's weighing in: Cameron is no stranger to deep-sea exploration. He's made a whopping 33 dives to the shipwreck himself, even calculating that he's spent more time on the Titanic than its own ...

Back in 2012 Titanic director James Cameron took on a historic solo mission to the deepest place in the ocean, becoming the first human to reach the 6.8-mile-deep undersea valley ...

The deep submergence community is small, Cameron stressed. He said he's known Paul-Henri Nargeolet, the "legendary" French submersible pilot who was one of the five people on board, for 25 years.

"The Ultimate Test" Retired U.S. Navy Capt. Don Walsh, who descended to Challenger Deep in 1960, said he was pleased to hear that Cameron had reached the underwater valley safely.

James Cameron (left) and Joe MacInnis share a moment in March 2012 after Cameron piloted the Deepsea Challenger to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the Pacific Ocean.