Depth record
April 29, 2012, Sunday
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A JAPANESE deep-sea drilling probe has set a new world record for depth, reaching 7,740 meters below the sea surface, the research institute that launched it says. The Chikyu, operated by the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, was digging the seabed off Japan's northern coast to take fault samples and study last year's devastating earthquake and tsunami.
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