Under these extreme conditions, life does exist, represented by deep-sea organisms specialized to these extremes. The Challenger Deep and the Mariana Trench provide scientists with a special ...

After each dive he quickly transferred DEEPSEA CHALLENGER’s samples to pressurized collection vessels. “We have so little data about the diversity of life at these extreme hadal depths,” he ...

Picture an ocean world so deep and dark it feels like another planet—where creatures glow and life survives under crushing pressure.

Challenger Deep, in the Mariana Trench, is the deepest point in the ocean known so far, at approximately 11 kilometres - deeper than Mount Everest is tall. The Mariana Trench is 2,500 kilometres long, ...