$28.00++ per person
Salad
Hearts of Romaine, Grape Tomatoes, Sliced Cucumbers
Ginger Dressing
Choice of Entrée:
Beef Kabobs Miso Honey Glaze
Served with Pineapple Rice, & Seasonal Vegetables
OR
Fresh Catch with Miso Honey Glaze
Served with Pineapple Rice, & Seasonal Vegetables
OR
Chef's Choice Vegetarian Meal
Dessert
Chef’s Choice Family Style Dessert
Coffee & Tea Service
"Beyond the Movie: The Untold Discoveries of the DEEPSEA CHALLENGE Expedition"
The National Geographic released 3D movie, “James Cameron’s DEEPSEA CHALLENGE Expedition” contained spectacular scenes of the manned and unmanned vehicles created for this expedition, far away islands, and nail biting drama. The storyline is meant to encourage young people to not loose their dreams on the way to growing up, certainly a good purpose that will bear fruit in the near future. But the expedition also captured truly astounding images of newly discovered geologic features and strange creatures of the Earth’s ocean trenches. Images from unmanned lander drops into the Sirena Deep and the middle pond of the Challenger Deep, including fractured over-riding plates in the subduction zone and swarming amphipods in the absolute deepest place on this planet, were edited out of the film. Some critics of the film noted this missing footage.
Now hear the rest of the story by those who led the lander build, and the analysis of the post-dive video and still images.
A discussion of where the science and technologies may go in the future will accompany the talks, and the role the SDYC might play in advancing knowledge of our world’s deepest depths.
Kevin Hardy career at Scripps Institution of Oceanography/UCSD spanned 40 years. Following retirement as a Senior Development Engineer, he was personally invited by James Cameron to join his DEEPSEA CHALLENGE Expedition to develop the unmanned seafloor camera and sampler platforms, where he earned the nickname “Lander Commander”. He has since gone on to found Global Ocean Design, a company dedicated to making deep ocean free vehicle technologies available to a more inclusive world of end users.
Natalya Gallo is a Biological Oceanography PhD student at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UCSD, studying under the expert guidance of Dr. Lisa Levin. By analyzing the manned submersible and unmanned lander images from the DEEPSEA CHALLENGE expedition, Natalya has studied what lives in the New Britain and Mariana Trenches and the rise in community differences between these extreme deep-sea ecosystems.
