DESCENTS+MADE+TO+THE+CHALLENGER+DEEP+(SEAFLOOR+OF+MARIANA+TRENCH)

**__Challenger Deep__**
There has only been three people to make it to the bottom of the Mariana Trench [|(Challenger Deep)]. These people are [|James Cameron], [|Jacques Piccard], and[| Auguste Piccard].

Jacques Piccard and Auguste Piccard (father and son) were the first two people to make it to the bottom of the Mariana Trench. They went in a submarine called the [|Trieste.] It took nearly five hours to reach the bottom, they only stayed on the bottom for about 20 minutes then went back up which took them three hours and fifteen minutes. The reason they went up so quickly is because of a crack they saw in the outer window of their submarine.

James Cameron is the third person to make it to the bottom of the Mariana Trench. James Cameron along with being only the third person, broke the record for the deepest single man submarine dive. It took 2 hours and 36 minutes for James Cameron to reach the bottom of the Mariana Trench. James Cameron was exploring for 2 hours and 34 minutes before he decided to ascend. James Cameron said he didn't see any fish longer than an inch [] . These are Cameron's exact words at a post-dive meeting: "I landed on a very soft, almost gelatinous flat plain. Once I got my bearings, I drove across it for quite a distance ... and finally worked my way up the slope." The whole time, Cameron said, he didn't see any fish, or any living creatures more than an inch (2.5 cm) long: "The only free swimmers I saw were small [|amphipods]"—shrimplike bottom-feeders.