James Cameron’s “Deepsea Challenger 3D” has recently opened in cinemas. Deepsea Challenger reached the bottom of the ocean in 2012, making Cameron the third man in history to visit the ocean’s deepest trench. Cameron’s lead sub designer, Ron Allum, and Triton are currently building the next generation of manned submersible.
A world leader in Composite technology, McConaghy Boats, has received the 2012 Australian International Design Award for their Deepsea Challenger submersible, which completed a record-breaking 11km dive to the bottom of the Marina Trench, with the world-renowned Hollywood writer and director James Cameron aboard.
McConaghy was approached eighteen months ago to assist the explorer-filmmaker James Cameron and his engineering partner, Ron Allum, with the complex construction of the DEEPSEA CHALLENGER submersible, a submarine capable of diving to the bottom of the Mariana Trench in the Western Pacific, eleven kilometres down at the deepest part of the worlds oceans – with Cameron himself onboard as sole pilot.