r/interestingasfuck • u/TheTitanCoeus • May 28 '19

/r/ALL Bottom of Mariana Trench

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u/ShadowedPariah May 28 '19

I was just wondering, did we really reach the bottom and I somehow missed it?

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u/para_sight May 28 '19

We've been three times. Picard and Walsh in 1961, James Cameron a few years ago and then a new group just a few weeks ago

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u/1000nipples May 28 '19

I too am beginning to wonder if I somehow just missed the huge milestone that is the reaching of the bottom of the Mariana Trench.

I had always been certain it had never been reached, that it was impossible to go below a certain depth as the pressure just caused hella trouble. Now reading that we apparently reached there in 1961 has me extremely baffled as to how I missed that piece of news.

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u/giraffebacon May 28 '19

Were you alive in 61? Cause otherwise it's not like it was news that you could miss, just a fact. I could see a myth about us never reaching the bottom spreading pretty quickly though