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Seven miles beneath the Pacific Ocean, in the deepest place on Earth, American explorer Victor Vescovo descended in 2019 to a depth where the pressure equals 50 jumbo jets stacked overhead — and at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, where no light has ever reached, he found a plastic bag and several candy wrappers waiting on the seabed.

Seven miles beneath the Pacific Ocean, in the deepest place on Earth, American explorer Victor Vescovo descended in 2019 to a depth where the pressure equals 50 jumbo jets stacked overhead — and at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, where no light has ever reached, he found a plastic bag and several candy wrappers waiting on the seabed.

Published: June 15, 2026 · Space Daily

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The deepest place on Earth, it turns out, is littered. The dive began at the surface of the western Pacific Ocean, approximately 200 miles southwest of Guam, on the morning of 28 April 2019. Victor Vescovo, a 53-year-old retired Navy officer and Dallas-based …