A world-known filmmaker James Cameron has come to Irkutsky region to take an immersion into Baikal.

At the moment Cameron is in Listvyanka village, Irkutsky Region, where he is examining deep-sea submersibles ‘Mir 1’ and ’Mir 2’, on one of which he’ll submerge on 16^th of August. The press agency of The Fund of Contribution to Protecting Lake Baikal reports that just on his arrival James Cameron was invited by the governor of Irkutsky Region Dmitry Mezentsev to a welcoming breakfast on the bank of the Angara River.

James Cameron for the first time got acquainted with Russian scientists and the crew of the ‘Mirs’ in 1997 when they participated in the shooting of a famous film 'Titanic’. In the current expedition the filmmaker is accompanied by a well-known Australian scientist, participator of a deep-sea expedition ‘Arctic 2007’, Michael McDowell and the author of the book ‘Avatar. An illustrated guide to the Pandora’ Maria Wilhelm.   

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