I am glad James isn't one of those rich people who justs sits around all day doing shit with their money. The guy has a lot of points in my book. From making aliens and Terminator 2, to Avatar, helping get interest back into the Titanic and doing this.
First video of the dive: http://video.nationalgeographic.com/...eo-deepfootage
Not too exciting, I'm sure they're holding back right now.
It is so amazing to me we know so little about what's in the ocean. I admire folks that have the drive and the ambition to find out what's there.
As for the balls deep phrase, it just seemed to fit. I wonder how much more he will explore and how much of it we will see. Such cool stuff, didn't the first two guys that went down 40-50 years ago discover some weird shit?