Going Down

[joggerjayne]

James Cameron (yes, THAT one) is planning to go down to the bottom of the Mariana Trench ...

(only once visited before ... in 1960, or something like that!)

This is probably the most extreme environment on the planet.

Would you go down, if you had the chance?

If not, what other "extreme" place would you prefer to visit?

[mike11111]

Beat me to it, Doc.

[craft1948]

Who is Mariana?

[joggerjayne]

Yes

[joggerjayne]

I'd be totally pooping myself the whole time, but I don't think I'd be able to resist it.

[joggerjayne]

If you stood Mount Everest in the Mariana Trench (in the Pacific Ocean, crafty), it would still be more than 2km from the top of the mountain to the surface of the water.

[anneasquith]

would be helpful jayne, if we knew what the mariana trench is .

[piggynose]

i knew a mariana once.
lol

[joggerjayne]

The Mariana Trench is the deepest known bit of the ocean.

It's in the Pacific Ocean, just to the right of Japan, and down a bit.

[Booldawg]

7 miles deep.

TBH it would be so dark down there you wouldnt be able to see anything.

[tiggerblue10]

I'd be too scared JJ and that goes for the Mid Atlantic Ridge too. I don't trust those submercibles.

[joggerjayne]

LOL Booldawg ...

I think they take a torch.

[joggerjayne]

It would definitely be scary, Tiggy.

[Booldawg]

Is Nick Clegg going as well!

[piggynose]

so the black hole

fnar fnar