I recently participated in a three-week-long, National Science Foundation-funded research cruise to the Mariana Trench. Our ...

Captain Buckle set a course for the Challenger Deep, more than 200 miles out to sea ... waning months of World War II. More days passed as thick swells rolled above the trench.

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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, ...