Mariana Trench: Record-breaking journey to the bottom of the ocean - BBC News

An American explorer has descended nearly 11km (seven miles) to the deepest place in the ocean - the Mariana Trench in the Pacific.

Victor Vescovo spent four hours exploring the bottom of the trench with the risk of his submersible imploding if anything were to go wrong.

The dive was later verified to be 10,972m and Victor became the first person to reach the deepest part of the Pacific Ocean.

[isabellegomez]

Shame that even in the deepest depths of the ocean you can see plastic waste

[MariaOliviaLennon]

*"We all did it."*

- what a humble man...

[sonyabadass]

Fishes: "TF are you doin' here"

[lnr]

Give the engineers the credit they deserve. Viktor went down there, but someone designed and built that thing. Kudos to that team.

[MyKoreanChingu]

i wouldn't be surprise if NASA found plastics on Mars

[benjaminroelofse]

this is the scariest thing I can imagine. 12 hours in a container and a risk that it might implode at any moment

[Auoric]

Imagine the reactions of these fishes to seeing light for the first time like "AHHH WTF BRO"

[ThrowingKnifeAim]

I can't be the only one: This week got me curious af about what it's like at the bottom of the ocean

[muhammadfarhan]

I absolutely love the way when the other guy said, “you did it” and he corrected it to, “we all did it”. I don’t know why but I admire that leadership so much

[hernanrodriguez]

That man risked his life so we can all see now the deepest part of the ocean just by searching it on youtube, that’s braveness and madness

[TheSunMoon]

The fishes there must be "turn off the light, goddammit!!"😂

[DaneOooo]

It's unbelievable the amount of pressure those life forms can withstand

[DivjotMahi]

Human: "At the bottom, repeat, at the bottom"

Plastic: *_First time?_*

[jodycarter]

It takes ALOT of guts to dive that deep knowing how immense the pressure is outside. I appreciate people that can do this and bring us new unexplored areas of the world to view. Thank you Sir.👍👏

[jhanick]

4hrs on bottom, 20 secs of actual bottom video

[were]

This guy is so professional. I love watching his interviews. No boastful brags. No outlandish comments. Very professional attitude towards his (amazing) work.

[optimusprime]

Explorer : You did it...
Diver : We did it...

Such humble man... I like him....

[hewasfuzzywuzzy]

"This isn't darkness. This is advanced darkness."
— SpongeBob SquarePants

[putinczen]

The most mysterious, darkest, scariest creature to ever roam the oceans: THE PLASTIC BAG

[oskarmaao]

You know hes gonna make it when he doesnt control the sub with a gaming controller