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Beneath the Pacific, the ocean keeps going down for almost eleven kilometres — drop Mount Everest into the Mariana Trench and its summit would still be more than a kilometre underwater. We descend level by level through the ocean's five zones to Challenger Deep: the rope that found it by accident in 1875, the Trieste's terrifying first descent in 1960, James Cameron's solo dive, and the strange life — and plastic bag — waiting at the bottom. Fewer than thirty humans have ever been there. More people have walked on the Moon.
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