Draft:
Adventurers who want to go “where no one
has gone before” do not need to travel to outer space. According to “Oceans: Earth’s Final Frontier,” ninety five percent of earth’s oceans
have not yet been explored. Under the
ocean there are mountain ranges, volcanoes,
and seven-mile-deep valleys. There are strange creatures, some huge,
some small but still frightening. The
problem has been that like outer space, the ocean is a hostile environment to
man. So men have needed to come up with
technology before they can explore these places on our own planet where no one
has been able to go before.
As much as explorers wanted to dive deep
into the oceans, they couldn’t because of the “extreme darkness, freezing cold temperatures, and crushing
water pressures” (DiveTechnology). And
of course there is the obvious problem of breathing under water.
The famous
Jacques Cousteau helped invent the breathing apparatus that later became known
as SCUBA gear, but even with this, divers couldn’t go any further than 130 feet
(DiveTechnology). There were still the
problems of cold and fatal water pressure.
As the space program brought new
inventions, a diving suit was based on space suits. It included a breathing apparatus and added to
that protection from water pressure and extreme temperatures. The new Jim Suit, as it was called, allowed
divers to descend to 1,250 feet (DiveTechnology).
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To travel deeper, it took a submarine
where the diver could be protected and have air and visibility, but even those
small subs had their depth limits.
Before 2012 four miles below the surface was the deepest the small deep
diving submarines could go. Then along
came James Cameron, the filmmaker and deep sea explorer. He invented The
Deepsea Challenger, and with it was able to
explore the bottom of the Mariana Trench – seven miles down and the deepest
known place on earth (Lights, Camera, Inventor). As
mankind continues to develop new technology, perhaps more of us will explore
these places we have not been able to go before, and who knows what we will
discover.
