# Journey to the Bottom of the Sea - Mariana Trench

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**Post date:** [April 16, 2012, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/journey-to-the-bottom-of-the-sea-mariana-trench/618950/1 "2012-04-16T14:43:54Z")

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I ran across this interview with Don Walsh, one of the two guys who journeyed to the bottom of the Mariana Trench in 1960. He discusses being on the project, and the trip.

He mentions the window blowout they had. It was apparently in part of the bathyscape (submarine) that was not their pressure shell, so that is why they continued the dive.

> **['At 30,000ft we heard a crack'](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/science-environment-17060355)**
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> Don Walsh recounts his experience of diving to the deepest part of the ocean, the Challenger Deep, 11km down.

I found it through this BBC interactive, discussing the oceans and depths. Lots of videos and such.

> **[Ocean trench: Take a dive 11,000m down](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17013285)**
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> Icy cold, pitch black and with crushing pressures - the deepest part of the ocean is one of the most hostile places on the planet. As a wave of new explorers gear up to dive seven miles down we take a look at the mysterious world that they will be...