The submarine Cameron took boasted just a 43-inch-wide cockpit, but the craft itself was equipped with an eight-foot tower of LED lights to help capture images. The ship, named the Deepsea Challenger, was 24 feet long, and Cameron was able to see through a window that was nine inches thick. Despite the cramped cockpit, Cameron didn’t run into any issues diving or surfacing.
Walter Sipes, an aeronautics psychologist at NASA, said Cameron’s health played a factor in him being able to successfully complete the dive. “He’s got prior experience doing this, not just in the simulator but also training dives … and he’s an adventurer, so I really don’t think they’ll have any issues to worry about,” Sipes told National Geographic.
Despite the reported ease of the dive, several parts of the sub were destroyed by the 16,000 pounds per square inch of pressure. Cameron said his compass glitched, his batteries were low, and he lost control of two of the thrusters. The sub was tested twice in a pressure chamber that reached 16,500 PSI of pressure, a test it passed twice.
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