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Director James Cameron](James Cameron | Moviefone) sure knows how to celebrate a birthday. The director, who turns 56 today (happy birthday!) plans to spend his big day deep underwater. Cameron’s plans involve taking a submersible to a depth of 5200 feet at Russia’s Lake Baikal – the world’s deepest freshwater lake.
The director clearly loves being beneath the waves – as The Abyss](The Abyss (1989) - Movie | Moviefone) proved back in 1989 – and has other oceanic projects in the works. When not working on breaking his own box office records, the filmmaker is building a submarine that will take him 36,000 feet below the ocean’s surface – that’s nearly seven miles down! Meanwhile, he’s developing a new underwater 3D camera that he intends to use on a new feature film. Cameron states that this undisclosed new project might be the film he makes before starting on the sequel to his record-breaking Avatar](Amazon.com: Avatar (Two-Disc Original Theatrical Edition Blu-ray/DVD Combo) : Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Michelle Rodriguez, Stephen Lang, James Cameron: Movies & TV). Let’s just hope it doesn’t take as long to make as* Avatar* did, otherwise we’ll all be old before we take another trip to Pandora.
And what happens today if the weather in Russia isn’t good enough for a trip of nearly a mile below the surface of Lake Baikal? Cameron says he has a contingency plan – one that involves getting drunk with his Russian crew while staying in port. Sounds like a great way to mark the passing of another year in either case.
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