Under these extreme conditions, life does exist, represented by deep-sea organisms specialized to these extremes. The Challenger Deep and the Mariana Trench provide scientists with a special ...

After each dive he quickly transferred DEEPSEA CHALLENGER’s samples to pressurized collection vessels. “We have so little data about the diversity of life at these extreme hadal depths,” he ...

The mission was part of Challenger 150, a UNESCO-endorsed global initiative for deep-sea research. The discoveries were ...