In 2012, which film director became the first solo diver to reach the bottom of the Mariana Trench in a submarine?
Ron Allum Challenger Deep. This is the lowest point on Earth, the bottom of the Mariana Trench, below sea level. This record-breaking exploration took place on 26 March 2012. Allum was a national finalist for Senior Australian of the Year in 2013. Ron Allum Ron Allum (born 22 March 1949) is a submarine designer, cave diver and inventor. Allum is regarded as one of the world’s most experienced and accomplished cave divers. In 1983 he led an expedition to Cocklebiddy Cave on Australia’s Nullarbor Plain. The expedition achieved a world record push of into the cave system. Allum collaborated with James Cameron
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea the deepest surveyed spot in the world's oceans, and is located in the Mariana Trench, southwest of Guam. From February 16, 1960, to May 10, 1960, the submarine , under the command of Captain Edward L. Beach, Jr., made the first submerged circumnavigation of the world. "Triton" observed and photographed Guam extensively through her periscope during this mission, without being detected by the U.S. Navy on Guam. In the film, "Seaview" fires a missile from a position northwest of Guam to extinguish the "skyfire." At the time that "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" was made, the Van Allen