Retired Capt. Don Walsh, Ph.D., who commanded the U.S. Navy’s bathyscaphe Trieste, discusses the dive to the deepest place on Earth, the Challenger Deep located at the southern end of the Mariana ...
Challenger Deep, Earth's deepest point, lies in the Mariana Trench. This extreme environment features crushing pressure and no sunlight. Surprisingly, life exists here, adapted to the harsh conditions ...
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