Crew: Two pilots, two rescue personnel and the capacity for 24 passengers. Deep Submergence Rescue Vehicles perform rescue operations on submerged, disabled submarines of the U.S. Navy or foreign ...

The floor of the Calypso Deep − a 5,112-meter-deep trench in the Ionian Sea − holds one of the highest concentrations of ...

Miles below the surface of the ocean, it’s pitch-black, cold and empty. Only the highly adapted and most unique creatures on Earth can survive there, and even then, much of their lives are a mystery.

First, a deep-submergence rescue vehicle (DSRV) is able to dock onto the escape trunk. The DSRV can force the water out of the trunk and about two dozen men can climb aboard and ride the vehicle ...

To reach the bottom of the trench — the most critical aspect of the entire study — the team used a high-tech manned submarine, the Limiting Factor, a deep-submergence vehicle (DSV). The images ...

Debris produced by human activity has now been spotted at a depth of 5,112 meters (3.2 miles) in the Mediterranean Sea.

The research vessel Atlantis is specially outfitted to host Alvin and operate multiple deep submergence vehicles during a single dive. Most cruises last about a month, with around 20 to 25 dives ...

To reach the bottom of the trench — the most critical aspect of the entire study — the team used a high-tech manned submarine, the Limiting Factor, a deep-submergence vehicle (DSV).

To reach the bottom of the trench—the most critical aspect of the entire study—the team used a high-tech manned submarine, the Limiting Factor, a deep-submergence vehicle (DSV). The images ...