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What could they possibly have to argue about, and why are they arguing about it sopublicly?
You mightve missed it.
Listen, theres a lot going on, and I get it.Successionis getting even better.
But this random feud between James Cameron and a diver ahem, sorry,superrich adventurer is unmissable.
I dont think weve taken enough time for it.
Once upon a time, James Cameronsaidhe literally only cared aboutAvatar: Im in theAvatarbusiness.Period.
But hes in another business now, too: sending a rich guy emails disputing a very rich achievement.
Sometimes there is a beef so delicious a little too absurd, a little too banal to ignore.
Lets start with the players: Who is James Cameron?First of all: Lol.
You know exactly who James Cameron is, you clown!
And Victor L. Vescovo?
I hate to say it, I hope I dont sound ridiculous.
I dont know who this man is!Victor L. Vescovo is a very, very rich guy.
Kind of like a Renaissance man who looks like Donald Sutherland.
(you might find hisLinkedIn here.)
Hes only the 12th American to reach both North and South Poles and climb the seven summits.
But why?I really dont know why anyone does anything, to be honest.
Im just on a life journey that takes me from one BLT to the next.
So whats the drama here?
Why are Vescovo and James Cameron fussing?Well!
Vescovo said his dive was 52 feet deeper than any previous manned dive.
This whole thing will be a Discovery Channel miniseries.
Hitting bottom never felt so good.
Where I take exception is his saying he went deeper.
[The Challenger Deep is] flat and featureless, he said.
So his gauge may read differently from mine, but he cant say hes gone deeper.
But wait, why would James Cameron talk about this at all?
Isnt he in blueface on Pandora, working onAvatar?Excuse me, yo dontsilencehim.
He did so from Wellington, New Zealand, where he was filming an Avatar sequel.
The initial email inquiry from an assistant read, Request to Speak.
Lmao.I know, right?
But is James Cameron technically correct?
According to theTimes, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on Cape Cod agrees with the director.
Whats the extent of the beef?
Vescovo told theTimesthat he planned to respond in the next day or two.
Fjkaldfjkdla; jfdlafjaI know, right!!!
Perhaps we will never know, Vescovo said in a follow-up email to theTimes.
All I can do is stand behind the actual data.
Oh my God, Im loving this.Did you ever expect to learn so much about theoceantoday?
It is morally incumbent that my allyship lie with any person who employed Billy Zane in the 90s.
Vescovo, delightfully jovial over the phone, first gave some background on the dive in question.
Its pretty flat, but its a three- to four-square-mile area, Vescovo said of the Challenger Deep.
We went a little bit deeper.
We published what the instrument said.
We dove that area three or four times, and our sensors said we went to this depth.
A third-act twist in this story: Cameron and Vescovo have corresponded before!
He can be remarkably engaging and helpful, Vescovo told Vulture over the phone.
I love theTerminatormovies, he said.
I watchedTitanicon the Titanic!
