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James Cameron teams up with NASA scientists to explore the Mid-Ocean Ridge, a submerged chain of mountains that band the Earth and are home to some of the planet's most unique life forms.
- DIRECTORS
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- James Cameron
- Steven Quale
- WRITER
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- Buena Vista Pictures
- STUDIOS
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- Buena Vista Pictures
- Earthship Productions
- Walden Media
- CAST
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Anatoly M. Sagalevitch as Himself - MIR Chief Pilot and Keldysh Expedition Leader (as Dr. Anatoly M. Sagalevitch) -
Genya Chernaiev as Himself - MIR Pilot -
Victor Nischeta as Himself - MIR Pilot -
Pamela Conrad as Herself - Astrobiologist: JPL -
Arthur 'Lonne' Lane as Himself - Astronomer and Planetary Scientist (as Dr. Arthur 'Lonne' Lane) -
Jim Childress as Himself - Marine Animal Physiologist: UC Santa Barbara (as Dr. Jim Childress)
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Dijanna Figueroa as Herself - Marine Animal Physiologist: UC Santa Barbara -
Michael Henry as Himself - Marine Animal Physiologist: UC Santa Barbara -
Kevin Hand as Himself - Planetary Scientist: Stanford University and SETI Institute -
Maya Tolstoy as Herself - Marine Seismologist: Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University
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James Cameron journeys to some of the Earth's deepest, most extreme and unknown environments in search of the strange and alien creatures that live there. Joining him is a team of young NASA scientists and marine biologists who consider how these life forms represent life we may one day find in outer space not only on distant planets orbiting distant stars, but also within our own solar system. Aliens of the Deep is the result of expeditions to several hydrothermal vent sites in the Atlantic and the Pacific. These are violent volcanic regions where new planet is literally being born and where the interaction between ocean and molten rock creates plumes of super-heated, chemically-charged water that serve as oases for animals unlike anything ever discovered. Six-foot tall worms with blood-red plumes and no stomach, blind white crabs, and a biomass of shrimp capable of "seeing" heat all compete to find just the right location in the flow of the super-heated, life-giving water or to fry trying. Not dependent on sunlight (like all other life on earth), these ecosystems are as close to alien as anything ever imagined and provide one possible blueprint for the life that might exist beyond our world.
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