Okay, are you the curious type? I mean, what motivates an explorer? Why would someone want to go to the deepest place on earth? The Mariana Trench is almost seven miles down. Would you want to travel down in a vehicle that feels like a coffin into pitch blackness with water temperatures around 36 degrees? Except where thermal vents rush out at 700 degrees,

not knowing for sure you'll ever resurface? And what happens to you in those few moments

if there's a catastrophic failure? Now, imagine you're doing that 65 years ago when communications

and safety measures were primitive at best.

I'm Patty Steele, surviving a trip toward the center of the earth.

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