James Cameron arrived 5:52 p.m. European Time at the Mariana Trench‘s Challenger Deep, members of the National Geographic expedition have confirmed. Cameron’s depth on arrival was 10, 898 meters a figure unattainable anywhere else in the world’s oceans.
Reaching bottom after a 2-hour-and-36-minute descent, the National Geographic explorer and filmmaker typed out welcome words for the cheering support crew waiting at the surface: ”All systems OK.”