As soon as the Avatar director reached the bottom of the Mariana Trench—roughly seven miles under the ocean’s surface—he informed the world via Twitter. As Slate later reported, however, he didn’t send the tweet himself. Per a spokesperson for the National Geographic Society, “the tweet was pre-written by James Cameron and sent by a team member from the surface ship, with his knowledge, when he arrived at the bottom.”
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