A plastic bag found by Victor Vescovo, when he descended nearly 10,927m (nearly 6.8 miles) to a poin
A plastic bag found by Victor Vescovo, when he descended nearly 10,927m (nearly 6.8 miles) to a point in the Pacific Ocean’s Mariana Trench, one of the deepest part of the ocean. He also found a sweet wrappers. Two decades ago, Kaikō, a remotely operated underwater vehicle (ROV) built by the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) recorded a plastic bag at 10,898 meters deep in the Mariana Trench. -- source link
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