Dive to the bottom of the world

[anonymous-user]

This was on discovery last night, at 10pm, and basically followed at team of oceanographers and scientists as they sent a rov/aov down to the bottom of Challenger Deep. Now the program was entertaining, but how come mankind is only now being able to send rov's down there, yet in 1960 the u.s. navy sent a sub with 2 guys in it down there? Surely technology has moved forward, not backwards so i dont understand how come man, or indeed woman, cant go back down there

[FourWheelDrift]

Cost probably, the original was bought by the US Navy for $250,000 in the 1950s. Scale that up to today, add to that extra HSE costs since Trieste cracked a plexiglass window under pressure on it's original descent - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathyscaphe_Trieste

All for doing something that can be done with robotic cameras. Plus there's no oil down there

[clonmult]

FourWheelDrift said:

All for doing something that can be done with robotic cameras. Plus there's no oil down there

Thats pretty much the reasoning. Also, would there be any commercial gain to those deep sea investigations though? I doubt that much could be gained, so financial backing would purely be from those interested purely for the knowledge.

[RJDM3]

does nayone know when this is repeated or found online, i missed it

[HereBeMonsters]

I think the question we all want answered is what sort of watch do these guys wear?