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In 1960, my father, Jacques Piccard, reached the bottom of the Mariana Trench – nearly 11,000m (36,000ft) below sea level.

Kathy Sullivan was the first American woman to walk in space, in 1984. She has just returned from a mission to the deepest point underneath the oceans, the Mariana Trench in the Pacific.