New Chinese submersible reaches Earth’s deepest ocean trench

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BEIJING, China (AFP) — China livestreamed footage of its new manned submersible parked at the bottom of the ocean Friday, the latest foray by the country’s scientists into the Earth’s deepest ocean trench. The vessel “Fendouzhe”, or “Striver”, descended more than 10,000 metres into the Pacific Ocean’s Mariana Trench with three researchers on board, state broadcaster CCTV said. Video footage shot and relayed by a deep-sea camera showed the green-and-white submersible moving through dark water […]