LOS ANGELES, March 9 (Xinhuanet) -- James Cameron, director of Hollywood's blockbuster Titanic, is to host a private screening of his new documentary, Aliens of the Deep, to launch a new ocean exploration project on March 24.

    The Deep Ocean One project, led by Mike McDowell, CEO of a deep-water exploration company Deep Ocean Expeditions, aims to attract more governments to invest in the ocean field by proposing a series of deep ocean exploration projects.

    McDowell, whose company was the first operator to take "eco-tourists" to the deck of the Titanic, will also attend Cameron's screening to be held at the director's digital recording studio in Santa Monica.

    Cameron's blockbuster Titanic in 1997 has set an all-time box office record in history.

    McDowell's two Deep Rover submersibles, later used to explore the hydrothermal vents, appeared in Cameron's latest three-dimensional IMAX documentary. Enditem