Deepsea Challenge 3D Page #6

Five people want

the lower pod at one time,

but theres only

one person can work in it.

Were not project

planning no more.

What were doing is were firefighting. Yeah.

They're all tired. The yre all working 16-hour days.

To say that our team is not ready yet to go out to sea is an understatement.

Were so far from ready

its not even funny.

Our biggest enemy

at the moment is time.

(James)Well, we obviously

underestimated the systems integration.

So the new deadline

is February 6th.

Come hell or high water,

thats when we 're sailing.

Nobody outside the project

has seen Deepsea Challenger

and the first to do so

is Don Walsh,

the only living person whos been to the worlds deepest spot.

And by crazy coincidence,

hes arriving

on the anniversary

of his famous dive.

This is Kawasaki

racing green.

These are

racing colors, baby.

You had seen

conceptual drawings.

You had an idea and you knew that it was underway.

What is your reaction

to this?

Oh, I'm very excited. I mean, what took you so long? 52 years, I mean...

To the day.

Where have you been?

To the day.

So, Don, do you have

any tips for Jim

at about 20,000 feet

if he hears a crack?

If you can hear it,

you're still alive,

you might as well

keep on with the dive.

You never hear the one that gets you.

(Don) Jacques Piccard and myself made a dive

to the deepest place

in the world oceans.

The motivation was to test out a platform and not to do science.

That would come later.

And what better test than the ultimate depth in the ocean?

Passing 3,800 fathoms.

Coming up on 5,000 fathoms.

[bang]

What the hell

was that?

(Jacques)

We are still descending.

Turn everything off.

(Don) At 30,000 feet, there was this huge bang

and we didnt know

what it was.

I looked through the window

in the entrance hatch.

You better come

take a look at this.

And I could see this crack across that large acrylic window.

In my opinion, this

is not a serious problem.

There is no reason to ascend.

Agreed.

Uh-huh?

Uh-huh.

(Don) So, if in fact there d been a pressure boundary failure,

we would have been dead

before we knew it.

There were

no indications of problems,

so we decided

to continue on down.

Okay.

I can see the bottom now.

Coming up slowly.

There it is. Looks like we found it, Jacques.

After we landed, we stirred up a big cloud of sediment

and it was just like somebody had painted the front of the window white.

It was like looking

into a bowl of milk.

Cest la vie.

And after about 20 minutes, we realized it wasnt going to go away very soon.

So we had 5 hours 15 minutes down, 20 minutes on the bottom,

and about 3 hours

coming back up.

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