探险家，电影人詹姆斯卡梅隆将深海探险者潜水艇捐赠给伍兹霍尔海洋研究所(WHOI)

　　与WHOI达成伙伴关系，促进技术发展，海洋探索和发现

　　探险家及电影人詹姆斯卡梅隆和伍兹霍尔海洋研究所(WHOI)建立合作关系，共同促进海洋科学技术的发展，也是2012年深海探险者计划的历史性突破，该计划是由卡梅隆先生带领的。卡梅隆先生史无前例的深潜至35,787英尺(约合11,000米),到达地球上最深的地方——马里亚纳海沟。该次冒险是由卡梅隆先生与他的团队设计的垂直升降潜水器完成的，此项技术也为深海探险者提供潜水艇系统和科学平台。该合作声明的发布时值此次冒险的一周年之际。

　　卡梅隆先生将深海探险者的技术转移到伍兹霍尔，伍兹霍尔的科学家和工程师将与卡梅隆先生和他的团队将潜水艇工程纳入未来的研究平台和深海的探索项目中来。在今夏潜水艇照计划运到伍兹海尔之后，科学家和工程师将花费几个月的时间全面记录系统的组件技术。

　　卡梅隆先生说：“我们花费了7年时间设计和建造的深海探险者是为给深海探险家们提供更多的选择。我们的潜水艇是有科学验证的概念的，我们与伍兹海尔的合作关系能将我们的技术提供给海洋学的研究”，“伍兹海尔是世界上海洋深浅领域的领导者，不管是有人还是无人深浅。我与伍兹海尔非正式的联系也有超过20年的时间，此次能与伍兹海尔建立正式的合作关系，我十分高兴，并将深海探险者的深浅技术和科学平台转移给伍兹海尔。在伍兹海尔，深海探险者系统将得以发展，走得更远。

　　“詹姆斯破纪录的深浅鼓舞了我们，照亮深海的重要性”，伍兹海尔总裁兼董事Susan Avery说道，“在我们与深海的关系中，面临众多的挑战，因此实施创新的方式是十分紧急的。此次合作就是一个新的范例，并且将会加速推进海洋科学和科技发展的进程。”

　　深海探险者系统证明人类控制的机器作为科学平台能有效的探索海洋的深处。由于海洋深处的极端环境和抵达的技术挑战，海沟是地球上最少被探索的地方。深海探索者系统将创新方法纳入深海探索的挑战之中。该系统有几项重要的革新，分别是悬浮方式，能源储存，摄像技术和灯光系统的革新。这些革新帮助卡梅隆先生收集数据，样本和图像，最大化实现探险的科学价值。

　　詹姆斯卡梅隆同时也是WHOI海洋机器人中心的咨询委员，此次新的合作将把学术界，联邦政府和私人企业联合起来，推进机器人科技的发展。

　　“我们十分高兴卡梅隆先生加入咨询委员会，该会因为各个成员丰富的经历及为海洋科学做出了巨大的贡献而富有盛名。”Avery说道，“这只是卡梅隆团队与伍兹海尔保持合作关系的一部分。”

　　詹姆斯卡梅隆已经做了3,000小时的水下记录，有过85次的潜水经历，他们中的深度大都超过2英里，且有过8次海洋探险经历。从他1988年的电影《深渊》开始，卡梅隆先生就推进了水下摄影的发展，也在众多的故事片和海洋纪录片中使机器人拍摄。1995年，他让12个载人潜水器潜入泰坦尼克号的废墟中进行电影的拍摄，该影片赢得了11项奥斯卡奖，包括最佳电影，最佳导演，并打破了全球票房的记录。(泰坦尼克号的收入仅被卡梅隆2009年的电影阿凡达超过，该电影至今仍是全球最高票房保持者。)2002年5月，卡梅隆先生将他的机器人摄像机适用在拍摄纪录片《探索DKM卑斯麦战舰》中，拍摄了DKM卑斯麦战舰的废墟，其深度为16,000英尺。他继续发展和改善创新微型光纤假脱机ROV，该设备为长时间水下记录片的拍摄提供深海照明和摄像技术，用于拍摄包括2003年的《深海幽灵》和2005年的《深海异形》，以及不久之后的《深海挑战3D》。该电影运用和依靠卡梅隆和他的工程师伙伴文思佩斯先生研发的3D技术和摄像系统，且已成为他们的3D技术和服务公司，卡梅隆佩斯集团的基础。

　　卡梅隆先生是国家地理协会的驻校探险家，也是深潜水先锋协会的成员。他有过3年美国宇航局顾问委员的经历，为许多机器人航天探索项目做出了重大的贡献。卡梅隆先生也是阿凡达联盟基金会的创始人，该基金会为非盈利机构，旨在应对气候变化，自然破坏，原住民土地和文化的失落。

　　深海挑战是詹姆斯卡梅隆和国家地理协会，及劳力士一起的联合科学考察。更多信息： deepseachallenge.com

　　伍兹霍尔海洋研究所是一所私人的，非盈利组织，位于科德角，马瑟诸塞州，致力于海洋探索，工程和高等教育。伍兹海尔操作着国家深浅设施，该深海探索运营机器，造福了整个美国海洋界。该设施包括载人机器Alvin,远程遥控机器Jason和自动机器Sentry。www.whoi.edu.

　　Explorer and filmmaker James Cameron GivesDEEPSEA CHALLENGER Sub to

　　Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)

　　Forms partnership with WHOI to accelerate technology development, ocean research and discovery

　　Explorer and filmmaker James Cameron and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) have formed a partnership to stimulate advances in ocean science and technology and build on the historic breakthroughs of the 2012 Cameron-led DEEPSEA CHALLENGE expedition exploring deep-ocean trenches. The announcement comes on the one-year anniversary of Cameron’s unprecedented solo dive to 35,787 feet, almost 11,000 meters, to the deepest place on Earth—the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench—in the vertically-deployedvehicle he and his team engineered, the DEEPSEA CHALLENGER submersible system and science platform.

　　Cameron will transfer the DEEPSEA CHALLENGER to Woods Hole, where WHOI scientists and engineers will work with Cameron and his team to incorporate the sub’s numerous engineering advancements into future research platforms and deep-sea expeditions. It will take scientists and engineers some months to fully document the system’s component technologies after the sub’s scheduled arrival in Woods Hole early this summer.

　　“The seven years we spent designing and building the DEEPSEA CHALLENGER were dedicated to expanding the options available to deep-ocean researchers. Our sub is a scientific proof-of-concept, and our partnership with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is a way to provide the technology we developed to the oceanographic community,” says Cameron. “WHOI is a world leader in deep submergence, both manned and unmanned. I’ve been informally associated with WHOI for more than 20 years, and I welcome this opportunity to formalize the relationship with the transfer of the DEEPSEA CHALLENGER submersible system and science platform. WHOI is a place where the DEEPSEA CHALLENGER system will be a living, breathing and dynamic program going forward.”

　　“Jim’s record-breaking dive was inspirational and helped shine a spotlight on the importance of the deep ocean,” says Susan Avery, president and director of WHOI. “We face many challenges in our relationship with the ocean, so there is heightened urgency to implement innovative approaches. Partnerships such as this one represent a new paradigm and will accelerate the progress of ocean science and technology development.”

　　The DEEPSEA CHALLENGER system demonstrated the effectiveness of a human-piloted vehicle as a science platform for investigating the deepest part of the ocean. Due to the extreme pressures of these deep-sea environments and the technical challenges involved in reaching them, ocean trenches are among the least explored environments on the planet. The DEEPSEA CHALLENGER system incorporated innovative solutions to some of the challenges of accessing the oceans depths. Among several of the significant innovations are approaches to flotation, energy storage, camera and lighting systems that enabled Cameronto gather data, samples, and imagery in order to maximize science value from the expedition.

　　Jim Cameron will also serve on the advisory board for WHOI’sCenter for Marine Robotics, a novel collaborative model that enhances the development of robotic technologies by bringing together partners from academia, the federal government, and the private sector.

　　“We are delighted that Jim has agreed to join the Center’s Advisory Board, a group distinguished by its members’ deep experience and commitment to ocean science,” says Avery. “This is just one manifestation of the kind of sustained partnership developing between WHOI and the Cameron team.”

　　James Cameron has logged more than 3,000 hours underwater, is a veteran of 85 submersible dives, most of them to depths greater than two miles, and of eight oceanographic expeditions. Beginning with his film The Abyss in 1989, Cameron has advanced underwater cinematography and robotics during the production of numerous features and marine documentaries. In 1995, he made 12 manned-submersible dives to the Titanic wreck for his movie of the same name, which won 11 Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director, and broke the record for global box office. (Titanic’s earnings have only been surpassed by Cameron’s 2009 film, Avatar, still the box office leader.) In May 2002, Cameron piloted his robotic cameras inside the wreck of the DKM Bismarck, at a depth of 16,000 feet, for the documentary Expedition Bismarck. He has continued to evolve and improve on innovations in fiber-optic-spooling mini-ROV's, deep-ocean lighting and photographic technologies for subsequent underwater documentaries including Ghosts of the Abyss in 2003, Aliens of the Deep in 2005 and the forthcoming DEEPSEA CHALLENGE 3D. The film utilizes and builds on the 3D technology and camera systems Cameron and engineering partner, Vince Pace, developed in 1999 and that form the basis of their 3D technologies and services company, the CAMERON | PACE Group.

　　Cameron is an Explorer-in-Residence at National Geographic and a member of the Deep Submersible Pilots Association. He has contributed to a number of robotic space exploration projects and, for three years, served on the NASA Advisory Council. Cameron is the founder of the Avatar Alliance Foundation, a non-profit aimed at addressing climate change, the destruction of the natural world and the loss of indigenous land and culture.

　　DEEPSEA CHALLENGE is a joint scientific expedition by James Cameron, the National Geographic Society, and Rolex. Learn more at deepseachallenge.com.

　　The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is a private, non-profit organization on Cape Cod, Mass., dedicated to marine research, engineering, and higher education. WHOI operates the National Deep Submergence Facility, which operates deep sea exploration vehicles for the benefit of the entire US oceanographic community and includes the human occupied vehicle Alvin, the remotely operated vehicle Jason and the autonomous vehicle Sentry. www.whoi.edu.