The actual launch time was kept secret until the T minus nine-minute mark, and public coverage of the expedition soon ceased ... could easily have mirrored the Challenger disaster a year later.

More recently, filmmaker James Cameron reached the bottom alone in 2012, and Victor Vescovo made a dive in 2019 as part of ...

“Let’s move forward.” The expedition regrouped in Papua New Guinea, where, on February 21, DEEPSEA CHALLENGER finally swung over the rail on its first deepwater launch. From the moment the ...

A largely historic collection, the non-reef corals are from important deep-sea expeditions such as the Challenger Expedition, the Discovery Expeditions and the John Murray Expedition. We also care for ...