Deepest-ever sub dive finds trash
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Plastic waste has been found on the seafloor during a record-breaking dive by an American explorer
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Descents to Challenger Deep – deepest point on Earth in Pacific Ocean’s Mariana Trench
Mariana Trench

PACIFIC OCEAN
MARIANA TRENCH
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1 1960: U.S. Navy lieutenant Don Walsh and Swiss engineer Jacques Piccard in bathyscaphe Trieste

DEPTH: 10,912m

Length: 18.1m

2 2012: Canadian movie maker James Cameron’s solo plunge in Deepsea Challenger submarine

10,908m

3 2019: Retired naval officer Victor Vescovo in DSV Limiting Factor submersible

10,928m

Length: 7.3m

Length: 4.6m
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Sea level
1,000m
Last trickle of sunlight

2,000m
Sperm whale max depth

3,000m
Wreck of Titanic (3,784m)

5,000m
Deepest point of Arctic Ocean (5,449m)

6,000m 

7,000m
Deepest point of Indian Ocean (7,725m)

8,000m
Deepest point of Atlantic Ocean (8,376m)

9,000m
Depth of inverted Mt. Everest (8,848m)

10,000m

11,000m 
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Challenger Deep: Vescovo discovered four new species of prawn-like crustaceans called amphipods, as well as plastic waste
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Sources: The Five Deeps Expedition, Triton Submarines, deepseachallenge.com © GRAPHIC NEWS