A former United States navy commander has made history after becoming the first person in the world to visit the deepest points of the four trenches on Earth. The historic moment is accompanied by Kathy Sullivan, who became the first person to visit both space and the deepest point on Earth.
Vescovo reached the bottom of the Kermadec Trench in the South Pacific at the weekend. In doing so, he completed a goal of diving to the four deepest known areas on Earth.
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The unprecedented levels of mercury pollution found in the most desolate place in the Pacific Ocean have been brought to light this week via a new scientific study in Nature Publishing’s Scientific Reports Journal.
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The study sums up the findings of a multinational team that brought together scientists from Canada, Denmark, Germany, and Japan. The research is based on the first-ever direct measurements of mercury residue conducted at depths of up to six miles (10 kilometers) below the surface of the Pacific.
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