Pre-Listening Vocabulary
- voyage: an adventure trip
- emerge: to come into view
- dove: past tense of “dive” in American English (“dived” British English)
- sub: short for “submarine”; a vehicle that travels under the water
- remote: far away from action or populated areas
- technical glitch: a small mechanical problem
- premier: the first showing of a film
Filmmaker James Cameron emerged safely from a dive to
the deepest known point of the world’s oceans. Cameron dove 11
kilometres down in the western Pacific in a one-man sub called Deepsea .
He spent four hours exploring the ocean floor, which he called the most
“remote, isolated place on the planet.” Though Cameron was hoping to samples from the dive, the robotic arm on board suffered a technical glitch. He was able to
the dive, and plans to release a documentary. The entire trip took
about seven hours, and Cameron resurfaced just hours before the premier
of “Titanic” in .
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Discussion Question:
What is interesting about the timing of this deep sea voyage? Do you think it was partly a publicity stunt?
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