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 ...

Positioned at the southern end of the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific Ocean, the Challenger Deep has a maximum depth of nearly 11,000 metres (36,089 feet) below sea level. Yet this is within ...

The mission was part of Challenger 150, a UNESCO-endorsed global initiative for deep-sea research. The discoveries were ...

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, ...