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" The Challenger Deep is an ocean explorer&amp;#039;s dream. It&amp;#039;s deepest part of the deepest trench in Earth&amp;#039;s oceans. As any seaman will tell you, it&amp;#039;s deeper than Everest is tall. And as they&amp;#039;ll also tell you, it&amp;#039;s considered one of man&amp;#039;s last frontiers. Early last year, its lure pitted billionaire Richard Branson\u2014whose riches allow him to indulge these sorts of outlandish adventure-fantasies with honeyed lines like, &amp;quot;These are the kinds of irresistible challenges that you have to say yes to&amp;quot; \u2014 and Titantic and Avatardirector James Cameron not only against each other in a submarine race to descend into its depths, but also against a man named Patrick Lahey. Lahey is the president of a small Florida submarine company called Triton. He&amp;#039;s buzz-cut. He curses in a sailor way and not a giggly way. He was raised on a former pirate port by a WWII Royal Canadian Navy man. He&amp;#039;s just plain loved the ocean since he was 7. It&amp;#039;s almost killed him several times. Once when his oxygen ran out. Another when he was sucked into an underwater power plant pump, and other times with leaks and explosions. And yet he still went to build his own Challenger Deep submarine in a garage. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m not a scientist or an engineer, just a high school graduate who became a hard-hat diver,&amp;quot; Lahey told the Miami New Times in a profile. &amp;quot;But more people have been to the moon than have been to the bottom of our own ocean. That doesn&amp;#039;t make any goddamn sense.&amp;quot; Lahey worked with Cameron on his ocean-exploration documentary Aliens of the Deep, during which Cameron clashed with Lahey&amp;#039;s crew after a few submarine failures. But Lahey predicted, &amp;quot;Jim is a brilliant guy, and he may get there first. But he&amp;#039;ll get there in a one-person sub that will go in a museum when he&amp;#039;s done.&amp;quot; Lahey, as it turned out, was right. In late March, James Cameron won, with a solo submarine, the race (though, also, not really: in 1960\u20141960\u2014U.S. Navy Lt. Don Walsh and Swiss oceanographer Jacques Piccard reached the same depths). But in another way, Cameron didn&amp;#039;t win. &amp;quot;[It&amp;#039;s] very lunar, very desolate place, very isolated,&amp;quot; said Cameron of his findings, which he plans to turn into a 3D feature film, listing synonyms for &amp;quot;nothing.&amp;quot; Instead, months later, a crew manned by Lahey&amp;#039;s Triton, filmed something more fascinating, illusive, and, hell, Cameron-ian: A living giant squid. It was the first time any human has seen, let alone filmed, the mythologized being living, in person. The kraken, documented at last. Of course, the footage is stunning, with the 10-foot squid looming as only a mysterious creature of the deep could. (The things can grow up to four times as long.) It stares, rust-orange and hooded. It stares. Then it disappears. Since Triton&amp;#039;s accomplishment, no voyage has repeated the finding. There&amp;#039;s no telling who will see the giant squid next. Maybe a billionaire, or a millionaire, or maybe just a man with a buzz cut. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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