A peculiar item has been found at the deepest point of Earth.

Scientists made the disturbing discovery at Challenger Deep, which is 35,000 ft below sea level.

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The Challenger Deep is located in the Mariana Trench and is the deepest point in the Earth’s oceans.

To grasp just how deep it is, if Mount Everest was placed within the Challenger Deep, it would still be covered by a mile of water.

So it’s pretty mind-blowing that a beer bottle was found in this region.

The piece of rubbish was discovered by oceanographer Dr Dawn Wright who shared her findings on social media.

Alongside a photo, she wrote: “What did we see upon 1st touching bottom, at 10,900+m depth w/in #ChallengerDeep? A BEER BOTTLE!

“Further evidence that we MUST as humanity do BETTER by the ocean and for the health of habitats that we ourselves share & ultimately depend on!!! #ThereIsNoPlanetB #DeeperSeaDawn.”

Speaking about the discovery in 2022, she told Los Angeles Times: “It had travelled more than 6.7 miles to the darkest depths of the Pacific, label still intact.

“This discarded trash had managed to reach an unsullied part of our world before we actually did – a symbol of how deeply and irrevocably humans are affecting the natural world.”

People have been quick to comment on the photograph, with many sharing their own thoughts and opinions, while others had heaps of questions.

One person wrote: “Yes, the extent of human impacts on the environment is… everywhere.”

Another said: “Interesting that we as humans are able to pollute even the most desolate places on earth. We need to do better.”

Meanwhile, a third added: “The total amount of trash we have thrown on the oceans must be an astronomical number.”

And a fourth commented: “I mean – I’m bad ‘cause I just think it’s kinda dope that a beer bottle made it down that far.”

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And a fifth penned: “Pros and cons about this… The positive is that we now know that a beer bottle can descend to the bottom while staying intact. The negative is the obvious… there’s human tracks where human tracks should never be.”

Others were intrigued to know why the bottle hadn’t smashed considering the pressure so deep into the ocean.

But the explanation is pretty simple.

One person theorised: “‘Why wasn’t the bottle crushed?’ The bottle is open.

“Water pours inside and balances the difference in pressure between the ocean and the inside of the bottle.

“Somewhat related, but if you grab an egg in your palm and squeeze as hard as you can without digging your fingers into the shell, you probably won’t be able to break it because of its robust shape.”

Scientists have revealed a ground-breaking discovery after drilling into the Earth’s mantle, which they believe holds secrets to the origins of human life.

Led by researchers from the Universities of Cardiff and Leeds, the team travelled to a spot in the Atlantic Ocean commonly referred to as the ‘Lost City’ to conduct their deep-sea drilling experiment.

The team were able to extract a sample from the earth’s mantle, which is a layer of solid rock sitting underneath the Earth’s crust and on top of the outer core, which could now aid scientists in decoding the mysteries of our planet’s evolution.

The drilling took place in the Atlantic Ocean. (Thomas Ronge)

What is the ‘Lost City’?

Unfortunately the Lost City Hydrothermal Field, or more simply the ‘Lost City’, is not a mysterious civilisation lost to the ocean but instead a series of alkaline hydrothermal vents in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

Now this may sound far less interesting than the area’s name leads you to think but the Lost City is actually massively important to scientists, as the vents release methane and hydrogen into the ocean.

These gasses are fundamental to sustaining microbial lifeforms, which means the location allows researchers to investigate further into the origins of living organisms on our planet.

“One suggestion for the origin of life on Earth is that it could have happened in an environment similar to Lost City,” Andrew McCaig, a geologist and study co-author from the University of Leeds, said of the location’s importance.

See, not so boring after all!

What could the findings mean for scientists?

Now to you and I, a bunch of rocks dug up from the ocean floor might not sound like much, but to the teams conducting the research the findings are crucial to understanding evolutionary processes from billions of years ago.

A sample of the rock examined under the microscope. (Johan Lissenberg/ University of Cardiff)

“The reaction between seawater and mantle rocks on or near the seafloor releases hydrogen, which in turn forms compounds such as methane, which underpin microbial life. This is one of the hypotheses for the origin of life on Earth,” Cardiff University’s Geologist Johan Lissenberg and lead author of the study explained.

“Our recovery of mantle rocks enables us to study these reactions in great detail and across a range of temperatures, and link it to the observations our microbiologists make on the abundance and types of microbes present in the rocks, and the depth to which microbes occur beneath the ocean floor.”

The rock sample recovered is around 2.5 inches – or 6.5cm – in diameter.

Lissenberg added in an interview with The New York Times that it’s too soon to say for certain what the research will reveal, but his team are hopeful that it will deepen scientists’ understanding about how microbial lifeforms eventually ended up as humans in the past billion years.

People have all been asking the same question after an unexpected discovery was made at the deepest point of Earth.

Now, there’s no denying that the ocean is a pretty scary place.

The mere fact that only five percent of the ocean has been explored by mankind is absolutely terrifying, meaning who knows what kind of sea monsters are lurking deep beneath the surface?

Well, something was discovered in the deepest depths by scientists recently that nobody quite expected – and it’s actually rather disturbing.

Instead of a gigantic squid or a sunken shipwreck, a single glass beer bottle was discovered within the Challenger Deep, which is located in the Mariana Trench – aka the deepest point in the Earth’s oceans and 35,000ft below sea level.

To grasp just how deep the region is, if Mount Everest was placed within the Challenger Deep, it would still be covered by a mile of water.

So it’s pretty mind-blowing that a beer bottle was found there.

The piece of rubbish was discovered by oceanographer Dr. Dawn Wright, who shared her findings on social media.

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Alongside a photo, she wrote: “What did we see upon 1st touching bottom, at 10,900+m depth w/in #ChallengerDeep? A BEER BOTTLE!”

Dr. Wright then stressed how this find was disturbing rather than funny, saying: “Further evidence that we MUST as humanity do BETTER by the ocean and for the health of habitats that we ourselves share & ultimately depend on!!! #ThereIsNoPlanetB #DeeperSeaDawn.”

But ever since the image of the beer bottle floating in the abyss was posted online, people have had one burning question: How is the glass bottle withstanding the pressure associated with this kind of depth?

One asked: “So you telling me that one bottle can withstand more pressure than the specialised submarine?”

Many cast their minds back to the devastating OceanGate submersible disaster last year, which saw five people lose their lives when the sub they were traveling in to visit the Titanic wreck imploded.

But as one poster pointed out, the answer to how the bottle is still intact is quite simple.

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One person theorised: “‘Why wasn’t the bottle crushed?’ The bottle is open. Water pours inside and balances the difference in pressure between the ocean and the inside of the bottle.

“Somewhat related, but if you grab an egg in your palm and squeeze as hard as you can without digging your fingers into the shell, you probably won’t be able to break it because of its robust shape.”

Meanwhile, another person added: “If the pressure were equal inside and out, there would definitely NOT be enough pressure to crush the glass. Why? Because if pressure is equal inside and out, there is effectively NO pressure pushing in on the glass.

“If however, the bottle were sealed at atmospheric pressure and sent down into the Mariana Trench, I would say that it almost definitely would crush the glass due to the differences in pressure.”

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In June 2023, the OceanGate submersible set off to visit the famous Titanic wreck and sadly never returned to the surface.

After days of searching, debris from the imploded vessel was found by a search and rescue effort.

The US Coast Guard confirmed that the Titan sub had suffered from a ‘catastrophic implosion’, which would have killed all on board instantly.

Sadly, all five passengers – Hamish Harding, father and son Shahzada Dawood and Sulaiman Dawood, submersible pilot Paul-Henry Nargeolet and OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush – were killed in the implosion.

The world’s largest ever ‘blue hole’ has been discovered, but we don’t know what’s at the bottom because we haven’t made it down there yet.

In Chetumal Bay, just off the coastline of Mexico and Belize, there is an incredibly deep blue hole.

First discovered in 2021, researchers initially thought it was 900ft deep, which would have made it the second deepest hole of its kind.

It seemed to come so close, and yet so far to matching the depth and majesty of the 990ft deep Sansha Yongle Blue Hole in the South China Sea.

However, new measurements of the Taam Ja’ Blue Hole found that it was actually 1,380 feet deep which allow it to greatly surpass its rival and take the top spot.

Mexico’s Taam Ja’ Blue Hole is the deepest in the world, but we don’t fully know what’s down there. (Joan A. Sánchez-Sánchez)

From rising to new heights to plumbing new depths, the next step for researchers would be to reach the bottom of this hole.

Writing in a study which was published on Monday (29 April) in Frontiers in Marine Science, the experts explained how they discovered that the Taam Ja’ Blue Hole was even deeper than expected.

They wrote: “On December 6, 2023, a scuba diving expedition was conducted to identify the environmental conditions prevailing at the TJBH.”

As part of their experiments they used something called a conductivity, temperature and depth (CTD) profiler, a gizmo that uses probes to transmit information about water through a cable.

What they found was that the blue hole they were exploring was deeper than they thought and deeper than any ever found before in the world, and we still haven’t reached the bottom.

It’s the deepest ever blue hole, that we know of at least. (Frontiers in Marine Science)

What they did manage to learn was a layer of water below the 1,312 mark resembled the Caribbean Sea, leading researchers to wonder if there was a series of tunnels in the hole which was connecting it to the sea.

We don’t even know if there’s even more depth to this hole than we now think, as the CTD profiler can go down to depths of 1,640 feet but stopped at 1,380.

Whether this means it could go no further or that the cable wasn’t going down as far as it possibly could, we don’t know.

As for what blue holes are, they’re underwater caverns and sinkholes which tend to have different layers of water in them.

Remarkably deep, exploring them holds a certain level of fascination as it seems humans can’t see a big hole without wondering what’s at the bottom.

Sometimes expeditions into the holes find the bodies of divers who ran into trouble while exploring.