When HMS Challenger set sail in 1872 ... This reinforced the view that the deep sea was inimical to significant bacterial life. The Alvin’s most famous dive, however, was its 1986 exploration ...

A trip to the Challenger Deep can put a vessel under ... Objects of interest include the submerged ecosystem and its life-forms, such as deep-sea shrimp and crabs, and — higher up in the water ...

Under these extreme conditions, life does exist, represented by deep-sea organisms specialized to these extremes. The ...

Sonar mapping of the Challenger Deep by the DSSV Pressure ... this places the maximum known pressures in the deep between 1092.4 and 1103.4 atm (110.7–111.8 MPa). Notable is that several other ...

Discoveries at the Challenger Deep have been remarkable ... Researchers have used the submersible Alvin to discover strange sea life, study plate tectonics and hydrothermal vents — and to ...

Like most deep-sea biologists, I have a large collection of decorated ... coincides with the maximum known depth at the southern end of the Mariana Trench, the Challenger Deep. The actual maximum ...

Life at the bottom of the ocean is extreme ... been to the deepest part of the ocean floor, a place known as Challenger Deep. Marine geographer Dawn Wright is one of those people.