In 2010 three groups announced plans to develop and send a manned submersible to the deepest place in the World Ocean, the almost seven-miles-down “Challenger Deep.” Located in the Marianas Trench about 300 miles from Guam, it was discovered in 1951 by the British research ship HMS Challenger .

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