Film-maker James Cameron completes a record dive to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, which is located in the western Pacific Ocean, to the east of the Mariana Islands.
The dive was part of Deepsea Challenge, a scientific expedition by Cameron, the National Geographic Society and Rolex to conduct deep-ocean research.
Cameron has visited underwater and ocean themes in his directorial work
Mon 26 Mar 2012 08.40 EDT First published on Mon 26 Mar 2012 08.40 EDT
James Cameron gives two thumbs-up as he emerges from the Deepsea Challenger after his successful solo dive in the Mariana Trench
A picture of a deep-chimaera – a boneless fish that is a distant evolutionary relative to modern day sharks – taken by an unmanned submersible in deep water off Indonesia. These are the type of fish that are seen at great depths in the world's oceans and might be the type Cameron could see on the way to the Mariana TrenchPhotograph: AP Share on FacebookShare on Twitter
A photo taken in 2009 by the unmanned submersible Nereus showing the flat bottom of the Mariana Trench
