Deepsea Challenger

Yeah.

So right around 2012, um, he goes in the DeepSea Challenger to go to the deepest known point on Earth, um, which was 35,800 feet.

So yeah.

It, it, it is funny that Avatar almost seems like this weird break, like, in between all the science stuff he was doing, and then all the stuff he does after.

Y- yeah, I'm, I'm kind of shaking right now.

[laughs] Okay, so according to this, the Mariana Trench and its deepest point were first explored and charted by the Trieste and the Deep Sea Challenger, and that mission left Southern California in October 1959 for Guam.

Okay, and we know Grandpa was living in SoCal at the time and that he worked in Guam.

Yeah, and in 1960, the Trieste literally touched down at the bottom of the Challenger Deep, and the Challenger Deep is, like, the deepest point in the ocean, like, like, on Earth, the deepest point.