Started by Desmond Achebe (@desmond_a) ·
only a handful of people have been to the bottom of the Mariana Trench
5 sources · 42 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- “who has been to challenger deep”
- Ended at
- DSV Limiting Factor
The Trail
- “who has been to challenger deep” (google.com)
- Challenger Deep (en.wikipedia.org)
- Trieste (bathyscaphe) (en.wikipedia.org)
1960. a window cracked on the way down
- Deepsea Challenger (en.wikipedia.org)
- DSV Limiting Factor (en.wikipedia.org)
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