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How do submersibles deal with the pressures of the deep sea — and how deep can they go?

While the world has been waiting to hear of the fate of the passengers on the submersible Titan, questions are being raised.

Challenger Deep, in the Mariana Trench, is seven miles below sea level in the Pacific Ocean, more than two miles above Everest.

Did you know that submersibles and submarines, despite looking similar, are two different kinds of vehicles? Here's the design difference that separates them.

The ocean is nearly 7 miles deep. The Titanic is nowhere near the bottom at only 12,500 feet down. The deepest point, Challenger Deep, is 35,839 feet.

The deep-sea pressures could make search-and-rescue operations 'more challenging than going into space'

(CNN) — The submersible vehicle currently lost at sea is part of a relatively new effort enabling tourists and other paying customers to explore the depths of the ocean, the

(CNN) — The submersible vehicle currently lost at sea is part of a relatively new effort enabling tourists and other paying customers to explore the depths of the ocean, the

"We have better maps of the moon's surface than of the seafloor."

Kelly Walsh dived 11,000m under the ocean to Challenger Deep, 60 years after his father Don Walsh made the journey. He tells Bevan Hurley he’s watched the Titan rescue in ‘horror and sadness’