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manned subs only go 800 feet down.

 

really

 

taken fron the guiness book of records

 

The deepest ever manned ocean descent occurred on January 23, 1960, when Dr Jacques Piccard (Switzerland) and Lt. Donald Walsh, USN, piloted the US Navy bathyscaphe Trieste to a depth of 10,911 m (35,797 ft) in the Challenger Deep section of the Mariana Trench. Challenger Deep is thought to be the deepest point on earth and is situated 400 km (250 miles) south-west of Guam in the Pacific Ocean.

 

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Of the submersibles currently in service, the Japanese research submarine Shinkai 6500 is capable of diving the deepest. On August 11, 1989, it reached a depth of 6,526 m (21,414 ft) in the Japan Trench off Sanriku, Japan. The three-person craft is 9.5 m (31.16 ft) long, 2.7 m (9.9 ft) wide and 3.2 m (10.5 ft) high, and is owned by Japan Marine Science & Technology Centre (JAMSTEC). Shinkai 6500 is used for deep-sea research around the world.
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