The Nautile's support ship, the Nadir, will set off from the Mediterranean port of Toulon later in May.

BBC: French sub to resume Prestige dives

Cameron not only recounts stories like these in the 30-minute program, but offers up footage of the dive itself, and scenes of the hubbub aboard the support ship.

MSN: Cameron's Historic Deep-Sea Dive Debuts on National TV

Letting the newly programmed HAUV loose on the Curtiss, a 183-metre military-support ship in San Diego, and the Seneca, an 82-metre cutter in Boston, showed that a robot can do the job.

ECONOMIST: Monitor