Watched a show last night about the Nereus and the dive to Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench. I love shows about deep ocean dives and what we don’t know about our planet…
But at one point during the descent the narrator said, “More vehicles have reached the surface of Mars than have reached the ocean floor.”
I know what they meant, but I think they may want to clarify this statement…
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BTW, If I was one of the two men in the Trieste and the other guy insisted on completing the dive after the plexiglass shattered, there would only have been one man coming up alive because at that point, it’s a fight to the death as I try to surface. Were they braver than I am or just stupid? Or possibly, they knew more about their own craft than I learned by reading a single Wikipedia article…
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