The dive to the ocean's deepest point turned up some surprises. The news: During a four-hour exploration of the Mariana Trench, retired naval officer Victor VescovoVescovo is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include: Camillo Vescovo (born 1960), Italian ski mountaineer. Rob Vescovo (born 1977), American politician. Victor Vescovo (born 1964/65), American financier and undersea explorer.https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Vescovo
Only three people have ever done that, and one was a U.S. Navy submariner. In the Pacific Ocean, somewhere between Guam and the Philippines, lies the Marianas Trench, also known as the Mariana Trench. At 35,814 feet below sea level, its bottom is called the Challenger Deep — the deepest point known on Earth.
This is about as low as any person can go. The Chinese submersible Fendouzhe just reached one of the deepest spots on the planet, reaching a dizzying (and dark) depth of 35,791 feet (10,909 meters), according to a state-run news agency.
Trieste is a Swiss-designed, Italian-built deep-diving research bathyscaphe which reached a record depth of about 10,911 metres (35,797 ft) in the Challenger Deep of the Mariana Trench near Guam in the Pacific.
A nuclear submarine can dive to a depth of about 300m. This one is larger than the research vessel Atlantis and has a crew of 134. The average depth of the Caribbean Sea is 2,200 meters, or about 1.3 miles. The average depth of the world's oceans is 3,790 meters, or 12,400 feet, or 2 1⁄3 miles.
The fearless cookie-cutters have even disabled the most dangerous ocean creature of all—the nuclear submarine. They attacked exposed soft areas including electrical cables and rubber sonar domes.
A submarine's hull life is estimated by submergence cycles, each time a submarine submerges and goes deep, and it shortens its hull life. Exceeding test depth reduces hull life. It then becomes a matter of it being economical to keep the sub active.
A piece of the Space Shuttle Challenger was recently found off the coast of Florida, NASA announced in a news release Thursday. The shuttle exploded 73 seconds after takeoff on Jan. 28, 1986.
The OceanGate crew were in St. John's with the sub after making 10 dives to the wreck site over the past several weeks. "Titan is the only five-person sub capable of going to the Titanic depth, which is half the depth of the ocean," said Stockton Rush, founder and CEO of OceanGate.
The deepest point ever reached by man is 35,858 feet below the surface of the ocean, which happens to be as deep as water gets on earth. To go deeper, you'll have to travel to the bottom of the Challenger Deep, a section of the Mariana Trench under the Pacific Ocean 200 miles southwest of Guam.
They decompose but less when they are embalmed.
World War II German U-boats of the types VII and IX generally imploded at depths of 200 to 280 metres (660 to 920 feet).
The nuclear-powered Project 949A Antey (Oscar II class) submarine APL Kursk (Russian: Project 949A Антей Atomnaya Podvodnaya Lodka "Kursk") sank in an accident on 12 August 2000 in the Barents Sea, during the first major Russian naval exercise in more than 10 years, and all 118 personnel on board were killed.
The whale will be killed and the submarine will likely be heavily damaged. This actually happened in the 80s when a Soviet sub crashed into a whale. The sub survived although heavily damaged the whale was killed.
Nine nuclear submarines have sunk, either by accident or scuttling. The Soviet Navy has lost five (one of which sank twice), the Russian Navy two, and the United States Navy (USN) two.
Most of the time, ships use passive sonar, essentially listening to the ocean. But active sonar, which bounces high-intensity sound off an object, is more accurate. The Navy's own studies have shown the impact active sonar has on marine mammals. Even large blue whales will turn away from ships using it.
About 1,500 people died when the Titanic sank 100 years ago. Most of the bodies were never recovered, but some say there are remains near the ship.
SS Californian was a British Leyland Line steamship. It is thought to have been the only ship to see the Titanic, or at least its rockets, during the sinking, but despite being the closest ship in the area, the crew took no action to assist.
The wreck of the Titanic sits in two parts at the bottom of the North Atlantic Ocean, slowly decaying nearly 4,000 meters (13,000 feet) below the surface, but it's not alone. A sonar blip detected around 26 years ago has now revealed there's much more to this underwater area than previously thought.
1951 – Deepest Ocean Point Found
The British vessel HMS Challenger's sonar located what seemed to be the ocean's deepest point, with a depth of 10,929 meters, it is known as the Challenger Deep and it is located in the Pacific Ocean, in the Mariana Trench.
“The intense pressures in the deep ocean make it an extremely difficult environment to explore.” Although you don't notice it, the pressure of the air pushing down on your body at sea level is about 15 pounds per square inch. If you went up into space, above the Earth's atmosphere, the pressure would decrease to zero.
The deep-ocean floor is teeming with undiscovered life-forms that help to regulate Earth's climate, a new study finds. Researchers sequenced DNA from deep-sea sediments around the world and found that there is at least three times more life on the seafloor than there is higher up in the ocean.
In today's Naval Submarine Force, there are 53 fast attack submarines, 14 ballistic missile submarines – which currently carry more than 54% of the U.S.' nuclear deterrent arsenal – and four guided-missile submarines. Capt.
Victor Vescovo, an American explorer and retired naval officer, and his team at Five Deeps Expedition have successfully completed the world's deepest dive. They made the descent to Challenger Deep within the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific Ocean, which is commonly known as the deepest point on Earth.
The source explained: "Because it's a working environment everything gets positioned and the body will be lifted and put in the fridge, not in the torpedo tube like on Vigil, photographs are also taken as it's classed as a crime scene.”