Time.com’s Techland blog has excerpted The Futurist chapter on The Abyss. It’s a story about how Cameron nearly died filming the underwater sci fi tale in a nuclear container vessel filled with 7.5 million gallons of water. To me, The Abyss is a defining Cameron moment—it’s a movie where he set out to do something others called impossible, built the technology to realize his vision and, as this story shows, nearly died for it.
Read the excerpt here.