Marianas Abyss Revisited

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A new robot sub, sponsored by the Woods Hole Institute, is exploring the Marianas trench. This is of course the deepest point on earth and home to many weird and wonderful creatures. It has been explored one other time since Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh went deep in the Trieste - the Japanese sent a robot sub down there in 1995.

The plan is to go down into the Challenger Deep - the specifically deepest point on earth. I just hope they brought along a few good cameras (I'm sure they did) and that some of the footage finds its way to the BBC.

Challenger Deep in the Pacific's Mariana Trench is more than a mile deeper than Mount Everest is high. Illustration by Jack Cook, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

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