Posted on 03/18/2020 8:25:27 AM PDT by C19fan
The Mariana Trench is the deepest spot in the world's oceans and only a handful of people have been there. But for the first time, travellers are being offered the opportunity to explore it - if they have a spare $100,000 to $200,000 (£83,000 to £166,000). Isle of Man-based Eyos Expeditions is offering three members of the public the chance to tag along on a dive it's organising to a spot in the Western Pacific trench known as Challenger Deep - 35,853ft (10,928 metres/6.79 miles) beneath the surface. It is, the company says, the most exclusive destination on the planet.
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Nope. Too claustrophobic.
No way. There’s megalodons down there. The movie said so.
Too much pressure for me not to go.
There’s more visible light on the moon too.
I can watch the pond in my backyard for free.
I think that’s also where Godzilla came from........maybe he still has family down there.
THAT’S TRUE. There was a movie. Pretty funny actually.
Kinda like a cruise.
Thanks anyway, I’ll pass.
Oh, heck no.
One hundred adult elephants standing on your head. That is about the weight you would feel at the bottom of the Mariana Trench from nearly 11,000 m (7 miles) of water above!
https://schmidtocean.org/cruise-log-post/life-under-pressure-100-elephants-on-your-head/
With that kind of cost, I would rather go on National Geographic's: "Around the World by Private Jet". Many more photo opportunities. It's on my Bucket List.
Here's the link:
Yikes. I did a current event report on the USS Thresher in 7th or 8th grade that we did every Friday in one of my classes.
https://www.learning-history.com/uss-thresher-ssn-593-submarine-disaster/
Geez I felt bad for those sailors and their families. I was a very young lad.
With my luck I’ll probably have a real red alert gassy day while on that dive. They will open the hatch.
No thanks - I’m under water already.
Isle of Man-based Eyos Expeditions is offering three members of the public the chance to tag along on a dive it's organising to a spot in the Western Pacific trench known as Challenger Deep - 35,853ft...
Now there's an interesting palindrome measurement of which I was not aware.
The Five Deeps Expedition objective was to thoroughly map and visit the deepest points of all five of the world's oceans by the end of September 2019.[129] On 28 April 2019, explorer Victor Vescovo descended to the "Eastern Pool" of the Challenger Deep in the Deep-Submergence Vehicle DSV Limiting Factor (a Triton 36000/2 model submersible).[130][131] Between 28 April and 4 May 2019, the Limiting Factor completed four dives to the bottom of Challenger Deep. The fourth dive descended to the slightly less deep "Central Pool" of the Challenger Deep. The Five Deeps Expedition estimated maximum depths of 10,927 m (35,850 ft) ±8 m (26 ft) and 10,928 m (35,853 ft) ±10.5 m (34 ft) at (11.3693°N 142.5889°E) by direct CTD pressure measurements and a survey of the operating area by the support ship, the Deep Submersible Support Vessel DSSV Pressure Drop, with a Kongsberg SIMRAD EM124 multibeam echosounder system. The CTD measured pressure at 10,928 m (35,853 ft) of seawater depth was 1,126.79 bar (112.679 MPa; 16,342.7 psi).[132][133] Due to a technical problem the (unmanned) ultra-deep-sea lander Skaff used by the Five Deeps Expedition stayed on the bottom for two and half days before it was salvaged by the Limiting Factor from an estimated depth of 10,927 m (35,850 ft).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challenger_Deep#2019_–_Five_Deeps_Expedition_/_DSV_Limiting_Factor
Interesting:
THE FIVE DEEPS EXPEDITION - Atlantic, Southern, Indian, Pacific & Arctic Oceans
The world's first manned expedition to the deepest point in each of the five oceans
Will they meet Cthulhu?
Must chant: “Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn”
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