The Haiwei GD11000 can deploy cables to a maximum depth of more than 11,000 metres China has built the world's first machine ...

A calculation from satellite measurements in 2010 put the average depth at 3,682 metres (12,080 feet). However, at the time only about 10% of Earth's seafloor had been mapped to high resolution, so ...

The 12-hour dive on Saturday saw him reach a depth of approximately 10,925m ... on camera Larry Mayer/University of New Hampshire Challenger Deep (red pin) is the deepest part of the deepest ...

William Beebe and Otis Barton descend in a tethered sphere to a depth of ... to be the sea's deepest chasm, its lowest point nearly seven miles down, subsequently named the Challenger Deep.

Hollywood director James Cameron has plunged nearly 11km down to the deepest ... “Deepsea Challenger”, taking around two hours to reach the bottom. Once he reached a depth of 10,898 metres ...

Deep-diving craft tended to be fat ... “If she comfortably reaches 8,000, she’ll probably go to full ocean depth.” That night, DEEPSEA CHALLENGER made it to 7,260 meters (23,800 feet ...

Challenger Deep lies nearly 7 miles below the Pacific ... It took four hours to descend to the crushing depth of 35,810 feet. They spent 1 1/2 hours on the ocean floor, then another four hours ...

At 4pm, the UK explorer emerged from the depths of the trench’s Challenger Deep which — at nearly 11km ... distance travelled at full ocean depth’. But why go to such great lengths?