The dive
After a careful preparation that took up to two years, the perfect place and time was found to make this historic dive. It was about time. We know more about other planets than we do about what is on the ocean floor. As it turns out, we look up faster than we do down. And that while there are still plenty of secrets to uncover on the planet that we call home.
We’ve even managed to map the surface of the planet Mars in more detail than we have been able to do for the bottom of our oceans. And that while Mars is 225 million kilometers away from our earth. In contrast to this staggering distance, the average depth of the ocean is just over 3 kilometers.
What the researchers found at this depth seemed to come straight out of a nightmare.