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Expedition maps hundreds of thousands of miles of previously unexplored seafloor by The Week team IBRAHIM CHALHOUB /AFP An expedition to map the seafloors of the Earth’s five oceans has provided new insights into their precise depths and locations, scientists say.  The Five Deeps Expedition explored the “key locations where the seafloor bottoms out” in the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic and Southern Oceans in order to provide “the most precise information yet” on the oceans’ ...

Following one of the most adventurous ocean expeditions ever, scientists have returned precise measurements for the deepest points in each of the worlds five major oceans.  Data from the Five Deeps Expedition (FDE), which performed dives over the course of 10 months from 2018 to 2019, confirms for the first time the locations of the deepest points of Indian Ocean and the Southern Ocean.  The deepest point of the Indian Ocean is at 7,187 metres, within the Java Trench, just off the coast of I...

endIndex: Deo Onda, the Filipino scientist who participated in the dive into third deepest spot on Earth talks about the promises of deep sea exploration and why microbial oceanography matters to the Philippine community. Screenshot from CALADAN OCEANIC/YOUTUBE "When I accepted this, I never thought this would be history-making and that it would gain traction from the Filipino people,” says oceanographer Deo Florence Onda over a call, referring to the invite to descend into Emden Deep with...

The ‘Most Interesting Man in Dallas’ is ready to part ways with the most capable submarine in the world A series documenting Victor Vescovo’s history-making deep sea expedition in 2019 is now available on the Discovery+ streaming service. Dallas Victor Vescovo enters his submarine, the Limiting Factor, off the coast of Hawaii before a dive.(Caladan Oceanic) Dubbed “The Most Interesting Man In Dallas” by D Magazine, Vescovo became the first human in the world to dive to the deepest p...

Chinese scientists are gradually improving technology and achieving ever deeper immersion in the Mariana Trench Chinese research vessel Tanso-2 returns to Sanyas port after the expedition© Zhao Yingquan/Xinhua news agency SANYA, December 21. /TASS/. The Chinese research vessel Tanso-2 with the deep-water manned vehicle Shenhai Yongshi (Deep Sea Warrior) anchored on Monday in the port of Sanya after an ocean expedition, reported Xinhua citing the Institute of Deep Sea Research and Engineeri...

10 Offbeat Stories You Might Have Missed This Week (5/18/19) Another week has passed, which means that it is time, once again, to look at some of the bizarre stories that made the headlines recently. If you want to read up on last week’s list, click here. This week, we have two stories on mysterious texts and ciphers. One is carved into a rock in France, while the other one is considered a Holy Grail of cryptography. Another mystery would be who keeps drawing penises on the sports fields of M...