She completed the feat in the Bakunawa submersible in the South Pacific Ocean with her colleague Kate Wawatai from New Zealand. The almost 10-hour dive - part of a research trip on 16 April - took ...

The team works from a research vessel called Dagon, with a crewed submersible, Bakunawa, capable of going to the full ocean depth of 11km. These vehicles were previously used by the American ...