if anyone cares, I found these interesting anyway:
>July of 1965
>Marvin McCamis, a U.S navy vet squeezed his body through the narrow hatch of a small white submersible and began preparing for a descent
>he was heading into one of the deepest places on Earth
>he had served previously on eight different submarines.
>He was a marine electrician and later joined Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. >He was a technician who understood the sea and the machines that operated there >The machine he was piloting was the DSV Alvin
>it was one of the world's first deep sea submersibles.
>It was a 7 m long craft capable of diving to nearly 15,000 ft.
>It was equipped with mechanical arms and a small viewport for observing the deep ocean
>it was still a relatively new piece of tech at the time
>its mission was to explore a place known a trench nestled between the islands of New Providence and Andros in the Bahamas
>nicknamed the tongue of the ocean, It's a place where the shallow water suddenly becomes a dark drop which plunges thousands of feet into blackness.
McCamis and his co-pilot Bill Rainey were on this mission
>at the time they would be the only ones to witness this part of the ocean in detail
>The descent began, and for hours, the Alvin sank deeper and deeper into the blue
>this blue slowly faded to a murky gray and then to an absolute impenetrable black.
>The only light came from the submersible's external lamps which cut through the darkness.
>inside the sphere, you could hear the sounds of humming and machinery
>the two went about their usual duties, monitoring instruments
>they were now 5000ft down
>the pressure was insane at this depth, enough to rip a person into tiny pieces
>the ship too if it became depressurized
>they soon reached the ocean floor
>nothing but rock and silt and murky water in visual range
>the submersible began to drift along the edge of a big crevasse
>then the two spotted something