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Visit the 'most exclusive destination on earth'... for £166k: Tourists offered the chance to explore the deepest spot in the oceans - the Mariana Trench, which sits at a depth of 35,000ft
UK Daily Mail ^ | March 18, 2020 | Jennifer Newton

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Outdoors
KEYWORDS: marianastrench; marianatrench; ocean; oceantrench; pacificocean
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More people have walked on the moon than descended to the Challenger Deep.
1 posted on 03/18/2020 8:25:27 AM PDT by C19fan
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Nope. Too claustrophobic.


2 posted on 03/18/2020 8:27:38 AM PDT by madison10
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No way. There’s megalodons down there. The movie said so.


3 posted on 03/18/2020 8:28:22 AM PDT by Future Snake Eater (Plans are worthless, but planning is everything. - Dwight Eisenhower, 1957)
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Too much pressure for me not to go.


4 posted on 03/18/2020 8:29:26 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage? (Drain the Swamp. Build the Wall.)
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To: C19fan

There’s more visible light on the moon too.


5 posted on 03/18/2020 8:29:42 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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I can watch the pond in my backyard for free.


6 posted on 03/18/2020 8:30:51 AM PDT by dp0622 (Radicals, racists Don't point fingers at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin to make ends meet)
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To: Future Snake Eater

I think that’s also where Godzilla came from........maybe he still has family down there.


7 posted on 03/18/2020 8:31:15 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (It's the China Flu and if you think you have it, take Zicam......)
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To: Future Snake Eater

THAT’S TRUE. There was a movie. Pretty funny actually.


8 posted on 03/18/2020 8:33:06 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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Kinda like a cruise.
Thanks anyway, I’ll pass.


9 posted on 03/18/2020 8:33:25 AM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt
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Oh, heck no.


10 posted on 03/18/2020 8:34:14 AM PDT by Skooz (Gabba Gabba accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

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/


11 posted on 03/18/2020 8:34:41 AM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (Our parents/grandparents were called to war. We have been called to sit on the couch. We got this!!)
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No thanks.

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:

Nat Geo

12 posted on 03/18/2020 8:34:56 AM PDT by FtrPilot
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13 posted on 03/18/2020 8:35:06 AM PDT by BBQToadRibs
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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.


14 posted on 03/18/2020 8:36:34 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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With my luck I’ll probably have a real red alert gassy day while on that dive. They will open the hatch.


15 posted on 03/18/2020 8:37:19 AM PDT by David Chase
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No thanks - I’m under water already.


16 posted on 03/18/2020 8:38:34 AM PDT by beethovenfan (Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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To: C19fan; Phinneous
>>>More people have walked on the moon than descended to the Challenger Deep.<<<

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

https://fivedeeps.com/

17 posted on 03/18/2020 8:39:25 AM PDT by Ezekiel (The pun is mightier than the s-word. Goy to the World!)
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Will they meet Cthulhu?


18 posted on 03/18/2020 8:41:22 AM PDT by HangnJudge (Kipling was right about humanity)
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Must chant: “Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn”


19 posted on 03/18/2020 8:45:04 AM PDT by HangnJudge (Kipling was right about humanity)
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To: Future Snake Eater

20 posted on 03/18/2020 8:45:13 AM PDT by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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