This vehicle has an ability to dive into the depth of 11,000 m, the world’s deepest ocean bottom, and thus is called as a “full-depth submersible”. It enabled researchers to approach to the Japan ...

A former NASA astronaut who was the first American woman to walk in space has become the world's first woman to reach the deepest point on Earth. Kathy Sullivan on Saturday (June 6) dove to Challenger ...

Some people are mountain climbers, others love diving deep into the ocean. Victor Vescovo is both. An investment fund manager who was also a Naval Reserve intelligence officer for 20 years, Vescovo ...

US billionaire ocean explorer Victor Vescovo announced today that the submersible Limiting Factor, operated by him and sonar expert Jeremie Morizet, has located the shipwreck of the US Navy destroyer ...

A Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution researcher became one of just a handful of people to visit the deepest part of the ocean following a successful dive in the deep-submergence vehicle Limiting ...

Kathy Sullivan, the first female American NASA astronaut to walk in space in 1984, became the first woman to ever dive to the Challenger Deep at 35,810 feet, which is roughly 7 miles below the ocean’s ...

A groundbreaking expedition in early August led a team of experts and scientists 3,810 meters below the ocean's surface to the Titanic's final resting place at the murky depths of the North Atlantic ...

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) - A team of scientists is preparing to dive deep into the depths of the Indian Ocean — into a "Midnight Zone" where light barely reaches but life still thrives. Scientists from ...

Wayland resident Rob McCallum reached the deepest point in the world’s oceans — Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench — aboard the Deep Submergence Vehicle Limiting Factor on Friday, plunging more ...