Podcast appearances and mentions of Mariana Trench

In September 2021, Time magazine profiled Gerard Barron, CEO of The Metals Company (TMC), and his push to mine the Clarion Clipperton Zone (CCZ), a stretch of international seabed between Hawaii and Mexico. In that profile, Barron called the CCZ "the most desert-like place on the planet," arguing that mining the deep sea does less environmental harm than mining a rainforest because there's supposedly so little life down there to disturb. That single line has been repeated for years as justification for deep sea mining. Andrew puts it to the test. The science tells a very different story. A 2016 survey of the CCZ measured real, on-site abundance of larger seafloor animals and found meaningful densities of megafauna, plus hundreds of individuals per square meter of smaller sediment-dwelling species. A 2023 species inventory led by the UK's Natural History Museum and funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts documented more than 5,000 species in the CCZ, with the large majority entirely new to science. New species are still turning up, including a batch of amphipods described in 2026. And a landmark study on nodule-dependent species found that more than half of the megafauna living in these nodule fields rely directly on the nodules themselves, the very rocks TMC wants to extract, as the only hard surface available to grow on in an otherwise soft, muddy seafloor. Andrew walks through what happens when the nodules are removed, why TMC appears to be pursuing a path through the Trump administration rather than the International Seabed Authority, and what's at stake for communities near the Northern Mariana Islands, where a new mining lease is moving forward despite more than 60,000 public comments in opposition. This is a fact-check episode: quote first, then the evidence, so listeners can judge for themselves whether "desert" is an accurate description of one of the most biodiverse deep-sea ecosystems studied to date. Takeaways: Gerard Barron (CEO, The Metals Company) told Time magazine in September 2021 that the Clarion Clipperton Zone is "the most desert-like place on the planet." A 2023 Natural History Museum / Pew-funded inventory documented more than 5,000 species in the CCZ, with the large majority new to science. A 2016 study found meaningful abundance of both megafauna and smaller sediment-dwelling species across CCZ survey sites, not the near-absence of life the "desert" framing implies. More than half of the megafaunal species in CCZ nodule fields depend directly on the polymetallic nodules as a hard surface to grow on, the same nodules targeted for mining. A 2025 study of an actual industrial mining trial found significantly lower animal abundance at the disturbed site compared to untouched seafloor nearby. TMC is pursuing a mining pathway through the Trump administration rather than the International Seabed Authority. A proposed lease near the Northern Mariana Islands and the Mariana Trench marine protected area has moved forward despite more than 60,000 public comments opposing it. Support Independent Podcasts: https://www.speakupforblue.com/patreon Need help with your ocean non-profit, company, or project? Get the help you need with Pisces Oceans Inc.: https://www.piscesoceans.ca Connect with Speak Up For Blue Website: https://bit.ly/3fOF3Wf Instagram: https://bit.ly/3rIaJSG TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@speakupforblue Twitter: https://bit.ly/3rHZxpc YouTube: www.speakupforblue.com/youtube  

Grab your diving suits and check your oxygen levels, because this week on the You Run Podcast, we are descending 7 miles to the bottom of the Mariana Trench to revisit the absolute pressure-cooker of a movie that is Underwater (2020)!Starring a platinum-blonde, relentless Kristen Stewart, William Eubank's sci-fi creature feature skips the boring backstory and plunges us straight into pure claustrophobic survival chaos. We dig into why this fast-paced, Alien-meets-Lovecraft thrill ride is a criminal underrated gem. Trapped on the shelf for years during the Disney-Fox merger, Underwater finally hit theatres in early 2020—only to have its box office crushed as early COVID concerns and looming theatre shutdowns snuffed out its run before word-of-mouth could take hold. We give this aquatic nightmare the love and second look it truly deserves!As always, we're keeping it interactive:

Grab your diving suits and check your oxygen levels, because this week on the You Run Podcast, we are descending 7 miles to the bottom of the Mariana Trench to revisit the absolute pressure-cooker of a movie that is Underwater (2020)!Starring a platinum-blonde, relentless Kristen Stewart, William Eubank's sci-fi creature feature skips the boring backstory and plunges us straight into pure claustrophobic survival chaos. We dig into why this fast-paced, Alien-meets-Lovecraft thrill ride is a criminal underrated gem. Trapped on the shelf for years during the Disney-Fox merger, Underwater finally hit theatres in early 2020—only to have its box office crushed as early COVID concerns and looming theatre shutdowns snuffed out its run before word-of-mouth could take hold. We give this aquatic nightmare the love and second look it truly deserves!As always, we're keeping it interactive:

A Sunday sermon by Pastor Brett Deal.We've been to the moon, amazing 238,855 miles from earth! A few months ago, astronauts circled the moon again, and it was hailed as a great achievement. And it is! But every time we step out into space or live for protracted periods of time on the International Space Station, I can't help but remember that we've yet to reach the bottom of the ocean's depth in the Mariana Trench. We've soared hundreds of thousands of miles into space, but we haven't been able to get past 7.6 miles deep. It's as if we're good at going out, but not that great at going in.This is true of our lives. We're adept at looking out around us. We find it easy to make external observations about others, but turning that gaze inward…that's a different story. The tools we have to explore our own inner world are severely lacking. The pressure we feel as we swim down into our motivations is immense. Our best tools melt as we dig into the deepest places of our souls.Eugene Peterson once said that our prayers are tools. They aren't tools “for doing or getting, but for being and becoming.” I think he's right. We need better tools than the ones we've created in order to plum deeper into our inner spaces. When we turn to Scripture, we are given one such tool, one that we're less inclined to use because of what we think it will cost us. The Bible equips us with the prayer tool of lament (and sadly most of us have to be desperate before we choose to wield it), but when we do, we discover it was the very thing we needed to break through. Embraced in the grace of lament, we find the prayer tool we've been searching for. Lament gives us the freedom to speak honestly with God, pointedly asking Him to respond in keeping with His character. Delayed as we are putting on airs, pretending piety before the Lord and others, lament allows us to wrestle with God in the mud of our deepest hurt, anger, and confusion.Friend, God through His word invites to you deeper. Use the prayer tool of lament.

The Mariana Trench is the deepest and probably the most enigmatic place on Earth. Whatever that means. Bizarre creatures, such as deep-sea anglerfish, frilled and goblin sharks, barreleye fish, hatchetfish live in a crescent-shaped trench in the Western Pacific. Just three people have ever descended down the Challenger Deep in the southern end of the Mariana Trench. There, at a depth of almost 11,000 ft, vents are bubbling up carbon dioxide and liquid sulfur. But did you know that there are places no less mysterious and creepy than the Mariana Trench? If bizarre places with a notorious reputation don't frighten you, how about visiting the Bermuda Triangle? This is really one of the weirdest places on Earth and some people even believe the mythical city of Atlantis lies at the bottom of the triangle. They claim its inhabitants use extraterrestrial technologies to sink ships and crash airplanes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this inspiring episode of Reading With Your Kids, Jed welcomes back author Michael J. Rosen to celebrate How to Dive to the Deepest Place on Earth, his picture book collaboration with legendary astronaut and ocean explorer Dr. Kathy Sullivan. Michael shares the fascinating story of how he first met Kathy—before the Mariana Trench dive was even an idea—and how her lifelong curiosity led her to choose between charting the ocean floor and flying into space. Michael walks us through the mind‑bending reality of the Mariana Trench expedition: four hours sinking in a tiny sphere through total darkness, a narrow "column" of ocean actually explored, and the incredible engineering that relies purely on gravity and buoyancy to go down and back. He explains his role as "interpreter" for young readers—taking Kathy's technical experiences and turning them into language, images, and structure that a seven- or eleven-year-old can grasp, while illustrations carry much of the complex science. The conversation widens into a heartfelt reflection on curiosity—why any act of wondering is a form of exploration, and how adults can model that for kids in everyday life, from noticing spiders and birds to asking big questions together instead of pretending to know it all. In the final segment, Jed chats with April Chrystal Holmes about Invisible String, book two in her Eras Journey middle grade series. April shares how she tackles big feelings like pet grief and friendship breakups with warmth, adventure, and '90s-style heart, giving kids language and stories to help them carry loss, not "get over" it.

There's been a time in your life (maybe right now) when you hit rock bottom. When you felt like you were at the deepest, darkest point of the Mariana Trench and the pressure was slowly crushing you. You have two options in that place: give up all hope, or passionately cry out to God with hope that he'll rescue and redeem.

Question: What's the highest mountain on Earth? Would you say Mount Everest? Give yourself a point. Now, let's ask the opposite: what's the deepest hole on Earth? Some smart alecs among you might be saying The Mariana Trench, but that's wrong. There exists a hole so deep that it exceeds the deepest depth of the famous Mariana Trench, and shockingly, it was dug out by humans! However, what they found at the bottom no one expected. What did they find? How deep did they go? And how deep have we dug before? Let's explore some of the deepest holes on earth, and what lies at the bottom of them!  Our Sponsors:* Check out BetterHelp and use my code betterhelp.com for a great deal: https://www.betterhelp.comAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Send us Fan MailTravel writer, guidebook author, former Big Sur ranger, and old friend, Stuart Thornton, returns to Big Sur—at least in spirit—to reflect on a career spent encouraging people to visit the very places he sometimes wishes they would leave alone. We talk about discovering California's coast, writing guidebooks, the challenge of over tourism, and whether AI will help travelers find deeper experiences or simply send more people to the same beautiful places. Along the way, Stuart shares stories from Big Sur, the road, and a lifetime of chasing the next hidden corner of the map.Stuart traces his path from a Richmond, Virginia upbringing to a campsite at Andrew Molera, a ranger job that came with a phone book and a dorm bed, years living in the old naval housing at Point Sur, and a writing career that runs from the Monterey County Weekly to National Geographic to a shelf of Moon guidebooks. Along the way: a condor egg airlifted from the backcountry, an interview with James Cameron fresh from the Mariana Trench, a settlement after Anthropic ingested four of his books, and the contradiction he's lived with for years — a man who spends his days off chasing empty beaches while writing the books that fill them. Plus monks and silence at New Camaldoli, Gary Clark Jr. winning over the Monterey Jazz crowd, and a novel about "Billy the Brewer."LinksStuart Thornton — personal site · Moon author pageJoe Burnett / Ventana Wildlife Society — condor biologist who got Stuart access to the egg storyGary Clark Jr at Albert HallJames Cameron — record Mariana Trench dive (National Geographic)Pico Iyer — author; wrote on New Camaldoli and on Henry MillerWilliam T. Vollmann — The Atlas — Stuart's early influenceRyan Masters — Monterey County Weekly writer; band SuborbitalsEric Johnson — longtime Monterey County Weekly editorKem Nunn — "surf noir" novelist (Tapping the Source, The Dogs of Winter, John from Cincinnati)Martin Gurri — The Revolt of the Public — Magnus's earlier guestHipólito Bouchard — Argentine raid on Monterey, 1818Kayla Anderson — Moon Northern California Road Trips (co-author)"Billy the Brewer" — California's first beer brewer; subject of Stuart's novel-in-progressPlacesHenry Miller Memorial LibraryNew Camaldoli HermitageAndrew Molera State Park (and Pico Blanco above the Big Sur River)Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park / Big Sur StationPoint Sur State Historic Park & Lighthouse — site of the former naval housingPartington Cove (Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park)Monterey State Historic Park — Custom House, Casa Serrano, California's First Theatre"Shipwrecks: Every Broken Piece Tells a Story" — Casa Gutiérrez exhibit (opened June 12; the Natalia, wrecked 1834)Monterey Bay Aquarium — Stuart's tip: Tue–Thu, 2–6 pmHenry Cowell Redwoods State Park (albino redwoods)The Dyerville Giant — Humboldt Redwoods State ParkMusic & eventsMonterey Jazz FestivalFolk Yeah! (Britt Govea)Pixies — played the Henry Miller LibraryBonnie "Prince" Billy / Will Oldham — the first Folk Yeah show at FernwoodGary Clark Jr. — Stuart wrote an early national profileRelix MagazineTaj Mahal — Magnus's Fiji/Stockholm anecdoteBooks, publishers & otherMoon Travel Guides (incl. Moon California Road Trip, IPPY Gold Medal 2016)Monterey County Weekly / Monterey County NOWNational Geographic EducationJohn Steinbeck — The Pastures of Heaven · Sweet Thursday · East of Eden — Netflix series, fall 2026The Anthropic copyright settlement ($1.5B; Bartz v. Anthropic)Support the show_________________________________________________This podcast is a production of the Henry Miller Memorial Library with support from The Arts Council for Monterey County! Let us know what you think!SEND US AN EMAIL! 

This week- Who started the tradition of wearing a white dress at your wedding. Where did the term "money laundering "come from? Can you fit Mt. Everest in the Mariana Trench? Listen, laugh and learn with Nick & Roy. Brought to you by Tom's Place in Toronto. Tom's Birthday Suit Sale.  

Men with beards apparently make better long-term partners and we unpacked that claim. Harry Styles kicked off his new tour in Amsterdam and is heading to Australia in December which is very exciting news. A Qantas flight was diverted after a drunk passenger bit a cabin crew member which is a new low even by airline passenger standards. Hyper-independent kids who grew up eating cereal alone and fending for themselves are apparently struggling in adulthood and we had thoughts. Ricki opened up about her three unexplained ailments including sore hair, randomly muffled ears and tiny patches of skin that hurt for no reason and Sydney called in with their own weird body mysteries. And Tim took his daughter to the Billie Eilish documentary in 3D and came in genuinely emotional about what a good role model she is. We were not expecting to tear up on a Monday but here we are.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Misha Glenny and guests discuss one of the wonders of the natural world. In 1875 in the western Pacific, the crew of HMS Challenger discovered the Mariana Trench which turned out to be deeper than Everest is high, by two kilometres. Trenches like Mariana form when one tectonic plate slips under another and heads down and there are around fifty of them globally. While at one time some thought it was too dark and deep for life there and others wildly imagined monsters, the truth has turned out to be much more surprising.

In this episode, host Robert "Bob" Pizzini interviews retired Navy Commander and PhD Joseph Dituri, also known as "Dr. Deep Sea." Joseph, a Navy diver and engineering duty officer, served 28 years, during which he earned a master's in astronautical engineering and led deep submergence and submarine rescue capabilities. He later contributed to the development of the SEAL Dry Combat Submersible at SOCOM. Joseph shares his background, which involved growing up between New York and Italy, developing a strong work ethic, and entering Navy diving through early assignments and mentorship. Following his Navy career, he obtained a PhD in biomedical engineering, specializing in life support and hyperbaric/hypobaric medicine, and authored works, including hyperbaric medicine guidance. He achieved a Guinness World Record with Project Neptune 100 by living underwater for 100 days. This endeavor aimed to study the prolonged effects of hyperbaric conditions, promote ocean preservation, and inspire STEM education. Dr. Joseph also recounts his recovery from a traumatic brain injury using a multimodal protocol, discusses the safety and mechanisms of hyperbaric treatment, and defines leadership as a practice of giving back through knowledge and mentorship. Learn about all of these and more nuggets of insight in this latest episode of the Elevate Your Leadership podcast. KEY TAKEAWAYS Work ethic is foundational — Joe's parents modeled relentless hard work with zero tolerance for laziness, which made military culture feel natural from day one. Diversity of thought is what actually solves problems — background and upbringing shape how you think, not just who you are. Healing TBI (and most serious injuries) requires a combination approach — no single treatment works; hyperbaric oxygen, CBT, physical therapy, neurofeedback, and grounding all played a role in Joe's recovery. Residual self-image is a hidden danger after major life transitions — losing your military identity without replacing it can lead to crisis; look inward and redefine yourself early. The ocean is an untapped pharmacy — a compound discovered at the bottom of the Mariana Trench showed partial Alzheimer's-fighting properties; we've barely explored what's there. Living underwater proved hyperbaric pressure improves mental health markers — PTSD, anxiety, and sleep scores all improved after 100 days at depth. Leadership is knowledge transfer — accumulate wisdom, then give it away generously; your name is irrelevant, but what you pass on lives forever. Constant, never-ending improvement — the only goal is to be better than you were yesterday. QUOTES Leadership is basically giving back to whoever you're around, whatever knowledge you have." — Dr. Joe Dituri "Diversity of thought — that's where we miss the boat. I don't care about your color or your gender. I care that we solve the problem." "Nobody will remember my name in a hundred years. But hopefully some of that wisdom left me and went to somebody." "The drug company model is change one thing. The real human model is change everything and fix the f***ing problem." "Hyperbaric oxygen doesn't cure anything. It just helps your body heal itself." "I'm looking at the man in the mirror — and I'm asking him to change his ways. That's the work." "Science wins over BS. You gotta do the science." "Permission granted, Aquanaut — fix the problem." — Admiral McRaven to Dr. Dituri "When I went into the military, it was like — you want me to wake up early and never quit? I can do this. This is like being at home." Connect and learn more from Joseph Dituri.LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joseph-dituri-ph-d-5099789/ Website: https://drdeepsea.com/ About Robert: Robert is a #1 Best Selling Author, Speaker, Award-Winning CEO, and above all, a Leadership Coach by heart. Join Robert and together you will lead with confidence, unify your team, and expand your comfort zone. Where to find Robert: Website - https://robertpizzini.com/ Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/elevate-your-leadership/id1547181480 YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqx9fuoZnq0--c1ttdckwLg Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week Victoria takes us to the depths of the Mariana Trench. After taking us to the deepest cave in the world she felt it was only fair to visit the deepest spot on Earth! Kirk then brings us new research about how bumblebees survive having their homes flooded by spring snow melt. It turns out, they can survive for 8 days underwater! Rachel rounds out this week's show with the mystery of The Appendix. It totally isn't because she went to the doctor with abdominal pain this week. Join us weekly for more strange nature. Our supporters on Patreon get every episode ad-free!  Support us: patreon.com/strangebynature

Before astronauts, before rockets, and decades before the space race… one man built a metal sphere, attached it to a balloon, and rode it to the edge of space. In this episode we explore the incredible story of Auguste Piccard, the Swiss physicist and explorer who pushed the limits of human exploration in two completely opposite directions: the stratosphere above Earth and the deepest trenches of the ocean. In 1931, Piccard became the first human to reach the upper stratosphere inside a pressurized gondola, witnessing the curvature of the Earth and a sky so dark it resembled space itself. But he wasn't finished. Later in life he invented the bathyscaphe, a revolutionary deep-sea vessel that would eventually allow his son to descend nearly seven miles to the bottom of the Mariana Trench. From cosmic rays and balloon flights to deep-sea exploration and the limits of human survival, Piccard's work helped shape the technology that would later lead to modern spacecraft and deep-ocean submersibles. This is the story of a man who helped humanity explore both the highest and lowest frontiers of our planet. Listen. Learn. Laugh. Question everything. Support the show & join The Skult: Patreon.com/SofaKingPodcast Merch & SK Gear: SofaKingPodcast.com More Episodes: / @sofakingpodcast Sofakingpodcast.com Produced by Brad Taylor Music by Brad Taylor Full songs available on Patreon Intro "Enter the Sofa King Chamber" End Song "Edge Of The World" Artwork by Brent Vantassel #History #ScienceHistory #AugustePiccard #Stratosphere #DeepSea #MarianaTrench #Exploration #SpaceHistory

A marine scientist encounters something strange and terrifying on a deep-sea dive in the depths of the Mariana Trench. When she makes it back to the research ship alive, she believes she's narrowly avoided death. But then her body starts to change, and she realizes there may be fates even worse than that.Written By: Jessica GonzalezNarrated By: Shelley O'RourkeCollection Theme"Among Us": Stories about Aliens, Skinwalkers & Other InvadersOTHER CREDITS:Podcast Created, Produced & Edited by: Robbie HyneIntro & Outro Music by: Noah JamesPodcast Key Artwork by: Brendan Haley (insta: @haleydoodledo)Episode Artwork by: Robbie HyneFind and support our sponsors at: fableandfolly.com/partnersSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

We look at The Wake of HMS Challenger, How a Legendary Victorian Voyage Tells the Story of Our Oceans' Decline. See more about the book here. The Wake of HMS Challenger, reviewed This is an important book, albeit a depressing one. Even a century and a half ago when this truly epic, multi year voyage took place, the seas had already been significantly impacted by humans and their activities. In the time since these voyages took place, and the author writing this book, even further environmental devastation has taken place, causing even more irrevocable damage. One surprise was that the phrase shifting baseline syndrome only appears for the first time on page 150. This is clearly a huge problem for humanity, both in terms of the scale of damage done to our oceans, and the fact that things have so completely changed that no one, in anyone life time, can realise or remember just how bad it has been. This book, with passion and interest showcases the impressive achievements of the Challenger. Crossing the major oceans many times, suffering tough weather and numerous deaths among it's crew and even the scientists too. Several years passed during the voyage, numerous crew members deserted, others drowned, swept away, or succumbed to tropical diseases. The distances covered were vast, and it took another fifteen years after finally returning to England for the fifty volume collected works, learnings and observations to be described, written up and published. The insights for science were massive, but, time and time again, as the author details, they were capturing a world, either lost, or soon to be, especially with the future wide scale dredging of the sea bottom that has destroyed so much sea life. This is an important, but sad book to read. In these crazy times of climate change denial, and the denigration of evidence based learning the efforts of the HMS Challenger show that the science is not wrong, rather that short term human profit is, time and time again destroying so much of the beauty and biodiversity of our planet. More about the author Gillen D'Arcy Wood is the Robert W. Schaefer Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of the award-winning Tambora: The Eruption That Changed the World and Land of Wondrous Cold: The Race to Discover Antarctica and Unlock the Secrets of Its Ice (both Princeton). More about the book In December 1872, HMS Challenger embarked on the first round-the-world oceanographic expedition. Its goal: to shine a light for the first time on the mysteries of the deep sea. For the next four years, Challenger's naturalists explored the oceans, encountering never-before-seen marvels of marine life. The expedition's achievements are the stuff of legend. It identified major ocean currents and defining features of the seafloor, including the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and Mariana Trench. It measured worldwide sea temperatures and chemistry, creating baseline data for all ocean research since. And, most spectacularly of all, it collected nearly five thousand sea creatures and plants new to science. In The Wake of HMS Challenger, Gillen D'Arcy Wood looks afresh at this legendary scientific odyssey and shows why, 150 years later, its legacy looms larger than ever. The Challenger's scientists had no way of knowing that the incredible undersea aquarium they were documenting was on the verge of catastrophic change. Off Portugal, they encountered a brilliant starfish now threatened with extinction by microplastics; in St. Thomas, teeming coral habitats that today have been decimated by ocean warming; and at remote Ascension Island, the breeding grounds of the now-endangered green turtle. Lyrical and elegiac, The Wake of HMS Challenger offers a stunning before-and-after picture of our global oceans. It is both a reminder of what we have lost since the Victorian age and an urgent call to preserve what remains of the diverse life and wild beauty of our planet's fin...

Apartheid Empire or Zionist Deep State Plot? The Global Cover-Up Exposed! Today, we're diving deep – and I mean Mariana Trench deep – into one of the most explosive topics out there: Is Israel an apartheid state? We're talking all the conspiracy theories swirling around this, the real-world fallout that's shaking geopolitics, and that wild story about Tucker Carlson and his crew getting "held" at the Israeli airport just the other day.   Web Site: www.DontTreadonMerica.com https://linktr.ee/DontTreadonMerica Email the show: Donq@donttreadonmerica.com DTOM Store (Promo code DTOM for 10% off) Sponsors: www.makersmark.com www.NordVPN.com  Promo Code: DTOM www.alppouch.com/DTOM www.dubby.gg Promo code: DTOM Social Media:   Don't Tread on Merica TV   DTOM on Facebook   DTOM on X    DTOM on TikTok    DontTreadonMericaTV   DTOM on Instagram    DTOM on YouTube        

Misha Glenny and guests discuss one of the wonders of the natural world. In 1875 in the western Pacific, the crew of HMS Challenger discovered the Mariana Trench which turned out to be deeper than Everest is high, by two kilometres. Trenches like Mariana form when one tectonic plate slips under another and heads down and there are around fifty of them globally. While at one time some thought it was too dark and deep for life there and others wildly imagined monsters, the truth has turned out to be much more surprising. With Heather Stewart, Director of Kelpie Geoscience and Associate Professor at the University of Western AustraliaJon Copley Professor of Ocean Exploration and Science Communication at the University of SouthamptonAnd Alan Jamieson Director of the Deep Sea Research Centre at the University of Western AustraliaProducer: Simon TillotsonReading list:Susan Casey, The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean (Doubleday, 2023) Jon Copley, Deep Sea: 10 Things You Should Know (Orion Books, 2023)Hali Felt, Soundings: The Story of the Remarkable Woman Who Mapped the Ocean Floor (Henry Holt & Co, 2012)M.E. Gerringer, ‘Pseudoliparis swirei: A newly-discovered hadal liparid (Scorpaeniformes: Liparidae) from the Mariana Trench' (Zootaxa 4358 (1), 161-177, 2017)A.J. Jamieson, The Hadal Zone: Life in the Deepest Oceans (Cambridge University Press, 2015)A.J. Jamieson et al., ‘A global assessment of fishes at lower abyssal and upper hadal depths (5000 to 8000 m)' (Deep-Sea Research Part 1. 178: 103642, 2021)A.J. Jamieson et al., ‘Fear and loathing of the deep ocean: Why don't people care about the deep sea?' (ICES Journal of Marine Science. 78: 797-809, 2020)A.J. Jamieson et al., ‘Microplastic and synthetic fibers ingested by deep-sea amphipods in six of the deepest marine environments on Earth' (Royal Society Open Science, 6, 180667, 2019)A.J. Jamieson et al., ‘Bioaccumulation of persistent organic pollutants in the deepest ocean fauna' (Nature Ecology and Evolution. 1, 0051, 2017)V.L. Vescovo et al., ‘Safety and conservation at the deepest place on Earth: A call for prohibiting the deliberate discarding of nondegradable umbilicals from deep-sea exploration vehicles' (Marine Policy. 128, 104463, 2021)J.N.J. Weston et al., ‘New species of Eurythenes from hadal depths of the Mariana Trench, Pacific Ocean (Crustacea: Amphipoda)' (Zootaxa. 4748(1): 163-181, 2020)In Our Time is a BBC Studios ProductionSpanning history, religion, culture, science and philosophy, In Our Time from BBC Radio 4 is essential listening for the intellectually curious. In each episode, host Misha Glenny and expert guests explore the characters, events and discoveries that have shaped our world.

Soviet UFO Secrets: Inside Russia's Top-Secret SETKA Program | Exclusive InterviewIn this groundbreaking conversation, I sit down with researcher Paul Stonehill to explore one of the most secretive UFO investigation programs in history, the Soviet Union's classified SETKA initiative (later renamed Galactica).What We Cover:The 1977 Petrozavodsk incident that forced the Soviet government to create a formal UFO research programHow SETKA operated from 1978-1991, requiring Soviet military personnel to report sightings using special formsThe shocking 1987 Monchegorsk case—a recovered shuttle-like object containing non-human remainsWhy Soviet pilots were ordered to STOP engaging UFOs after multiple aircraft losses and casualtiesMultinational cooperation on anomalous phenomena, including failed missions to Mars's moon PhobosUSOs (Unidentified Submersible Objects) and Soviet naval encounters with underwater craftThe mysterious 1982 Lake Baikal incident involving nine-foot humanoids and Soviet military casualtiesGeographic hotspots: Kamchatka, the Kurils, Mariana Trench, and the Russian Far EastCosmonaut reports of telepathic contact and the phenomenon known as "the Whisper"Medieval Russian chronicles documenting unexplained aerial phenomenaGRU operations to isolate and guard paranormal zones in Siberia and the ArcticThe Tunguska event as the origin point of 20th-century Russian ufologyStalin's purges of esoteric researchers and the underground tradition that survivedPaul Stonehill is a leading expert on Soviet and Russian UFO phenomena, with published research documenting cases that remained classified for decades. His work with co-author Philip Mantle has been translated and published in Russia, preserving vital documentation of naval encounters and military investigations.This interview reveals information that challenges everything we thought we knew about Cold War secrecy and the global UFO phenomenon.Paul Stonehill @RussianUFOlogyhttps://t.co/Q5eCoyjQLchttps://www.patreon.com/user?u=6849546 http://www.youtube.com/@paranormalres...Jon Majerowski ALL LINKS - https://linktr.ee/ufosonthelevel YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/c/UFOsOnTheLevelTWITTER: https://twitter.com/jonmajerowski​PODCASTS: https://anchor.fm/ufosonthelevel​CONTACT: jonmajerowski@protonmail.com FAIR USE NOTICE: This video MAY contain copyrighted material, the use of which has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. UFOs On The Level distributes this material for the purpose of news reporting, educational research, comment, and criticism, constituting Fair Use under 17 U.S.C § 107.

This month, we discuss books set on trains or ships, a prompt on the Winter Books & Bites Bingo reading challenge. Travel the high seas with our recommendations: a graphic novel horror story about a mermaid-like creature; a lyrical, suspenseful novel about a woman following what might be the Arctic Tern's final migration; and a YA novel about a young artist who is slowly disconnecting from reality and living a second life aboard a ship in the Mariana Trench.Prefer to stay on dry land? We also offer some brief suggestions for books set on trains.Michael's PickSea of Sorrows by Rich Douek and Alex CormackPairing: Creamy Seafood ChowderCarrie's PickMigrations by Charlotte McConaghyPairing: Mashed Winter Vegetable StewJacqueline's PickChallenger Deep by Neal ShustermanPairing: Rum Runner

In 2017, Victor completed the “Explorer's Grand Slam” which requires climbing the highest peak on all seven of the world's continents including Mt. Everest and skiing at least 100 kilometers to the North and South Poles. He piloted the first repeated dives to the ocean's deepest point, Challenger Deep, in the Pacific's Mariana Trench -- now fifteen times, and in August 2019 became the first person to visit “The Five Deeps,” the deepest point in all five of the world's oceans. Victor has now personally explored the bottom of seventeen deep ocean trenches and has made three dives to the Titanic including the only solo dive ever made there. He and his team also discovered and surveyed the two deepest shipwrecks in the world: the USS Johnston in 2021 and the deepest, the USS Samuel B. Roberts at 22,600 feet, in 2022. In 2025, the US Navy announced that T-AGOS 26, a new ocean surveillance vessel of the Explorer class, would be named after him.He is also a commercially rated, multi-engine jet, seaplane, and helicopter pilot, a certified submersible test pilot, and recently flew into space on Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket, becoming the first person in history to climb Mount Everest, dive to the bottom of the ocean, and visit space.Victor received his bachelor's degree from Stanford University, a Master's Degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and received an MBA from Harvard Business School where he graduated as a Baker Scholar. Additionally, Victor served 20 years in the U.S. Navy Reserve as an intelligence and targeting officer, retiring in 2013 as a Commander.Support this Podcast: buy me a coffeeHosted by Michael J. ReinhartMichaelJReinhart.com Whiskey and a Map: Stories of Adventure and Exploration. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

‘Anal seepage' is one of the many potential risks to the consumer due to seafood fraud, a multi-layered conspiracy that goes as deep as the Mariana Trench.The stats speak for themselves: if you're in the UK, there's a 55% chance that the fish you're eating has been deliberately mislabeled. In the US, 120 samples of ‘Red Snapper' were tested, and only 7 turned out to be the real thing.Clearly there's something fishy going on.--Patreon - Ad-free & Bonus EpisodesYouTube - Full-length Video EpisodesTikTok / InstagramSources and more available on redhandedpodcast.com

Second place doesn't get a lot of attention: the second-tallest mountain, the second expedition to reach the North Pole, silver medalists in the Olympics. The second-deepest spot in the oceans isn't exactly a household name either: the Tonga Trench. The deepest spot is in the Mariana Trench, in the western Pacific Ocean. It's about 36,000 feet deep—almost seven miles. That's a few hundred feet deeper than the lowest spot in the Tonga Trench. The Tonga is in the southern hemisphere, northeast of New Zealand. It's more than 800 miles long, and runs parallel to the islands of Tonga. Its deepest spot is the Horizon Deep. It's named for the ship that discovered it back in 1952. The trench is created by the motions of two of the plates that make up Earth's crust. One plate is plunging below the other. The Tonga Trench is a groove where the descending plate disappears below the other. And the crust along one section of the trench is disappearing faster than at any other spot on Earth—about nine inches per year.           A couple of expeditions have taken a close look at the trench. They found an abundance of life along its steep walls and all the way to the bottom. One thing they didn't find was evidence of humans. Explorations of the world's other major trenches have all found trash—even in the deepest parts. But the Tonga Trench is pristine—a top ranking for the second-deepest spot in the oceans. The post Tonga Trench appeared first on Marine Science Institute. The University of Texas at Austin..

This week- Who started the tradition of wearing a white dress at a wedding? Where did the term "money laundering" come from? Can you fit Mt. Everest in the Mariana Trench? Listen, laugh and learn with Nick & Roy.    Brought to you by Tom's Place in Kensington Market in Toronto. Boxing Week Sale on now!  

Deep in the Mariana Trench, something has awakened…We're doing a water-based theme and you didn't think we'd check out a monster movie literally called Underwater? T.J. Miller unfortunately makes his return to the show as we talk about this wild Lovecraft-inspired Alien riff that (spoiler alert) Mykah absolutely hated.CHAPTERS(00:00:00) Welcome(00:01:17) megaNEWSlon(00:09:47) Underwater(00:58:06) Movie trivia(01:05:16) Final thoughts & ratings(01:10:16) Mailbag(01:12:35) Next episode...LINKSWe'd love to hear from you! Send us a ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠voice message⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠email us⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.Join our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Discord⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, support us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠, and follow us on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Letterboxd⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ & ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.Listen to the ⁠Podzilla Wrap-up Podcast⁠.Check out our amazing artist, ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Cassie Selin⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.THANK YOUA special thank you to all our Odo Island patrons:Jacob DockeyRich JetteFrogurtConnor StompanatoShaun SagerNerklesMichael KnottsRon JimenezMatt CrossJBSpinoEmmaJB Mason

What happens when an entire industry rushes forward before science can catch up? In this episode of Ocean Science Radio, we sit down with Dr. Andrew Thaler, deep-sea ecologist and CEO of Blackbeard Biologic, to explore his groundbreaking report for the Convention on Migratory Species that reveals exactly how much we don't know about deep-sea mining's impacts on whales, dolphins, sharks, turtles, and other highly migratory species. While most deep-sea mining research has focused on the immediate destruction of seafloor ecosystems, Andrew's report exposes a more troubling reality: we have massive knowledge gaps about how mining operations—with their noise, sediment plumes, and habitat disruption—might affect species that travel thousands of miles across interconnected ocean basins. From sea turtles navigating by magnetic fields to whales relying on acoustic communication, these far-reaching impacts remain largely unstudied even as the industry accelerates toward commercial production. The conversation takes a timely turn as we discuss the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management's controversial Request for Information for mining in U.S. waters off the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. Andrew breaks down why this represents a significant shift from international deep-sea mining debates, and what it means that communities near the Mariana Trench—with only a 30-day comment period and no guaranteed revenue sharing—are being asked to accept an industry that science hasn't fully evaluated. As the Trump administration pushes to fast-track deep-sea mining for critical minerals while international bodies like the CMS urge precaution, this episode asks the essential question: what's at stake when we mine what we haven't studied? Join us for a conversation that bridges cutting-edge marine science, environmental justice, and the real-world policy decisions happening right now in the deep ocean.

Welcome to Episode #192 of the Way of the Bible podcast. This is our eighth episode in our Twenty-Fourth mini-series entitled The Return of Jesus Christ [3]. On today's post Thanksgiving Week 2025 episode, we will be taking A Walk on the Beach with DrZ and summarize the content of this mini-series and areas we can focus on for future investigation into this topic the great snatching away, the Harpazo, the Rapture of the church. Let's just jump right into the middle of the mix at a beach house along 30A. So glad to have such a big group with us this morning. I realize this is an important topic, especially given the signs of the times. But I also recognize a special draw to just walk on the beach this gorgeous Thanksgiving week morning here along 30A. It's one of those mornings, after the water was totally flat yesterday, to have a light surf of clear emerald waves with white foam caps that take your breath away. The calming sounds of rushing waters will beckon us to enter into the conversation.I'll meet you all behind the beach house in ten minutes. That should give me enough time to go around and greet everyone personally. We'll have plenty of time for follow-up conversations and perhaps a surprise or two after our walk this morning.Looks like everyone is here. As we make our way out to the beach on the boardwalk, we'll pause at the large landing across the top of the dune and take in the view before descending to God's stadium floor. The floor where two worlds collide and intersect, but where no creatures are shared. With that, let's get walking.Alright, everyone, stop and take a look up and down the beach. What a glorious sight God has provided for us today. You can plainly see in the morning light the shimmering waters of deep blue, blue, and emerald-green with splotches of light tan where the sandbars lie just below the surface. Along the water line and inland, wide and deep snow white sugar sand as far as the eyes can see in both directions. Alright, let's head down to the stadium floor… Check out these crystal clear waters up close. The white foaming surf and cool, but not cold, feel of the clear water that quickly turns emerald ten feet off shore. We'll head toward the mid-morning sunrise and turn back to the West in a little over a mile. What is interesting but rarely considered is that there is another entire ecosystem with creatures that match and or surpass even the greatest or most unusual land creatures on earth. Water covers approximately 71% of our planet, with 91.5% of that water in the oceans. Yet we know little about the vast ocean spaces and the creatures that live there, and their habitats. We share the same oxygen but in totally different environments. There is a tiny crustacean called the hadal amphipod that lives in the deepest parts of the Mariana Trench up to 34,500 feet or 6.5 miles deep. The pressure at that depth is 15,350 pounds per square inch, which is 1000 times greater than the pressure at sea level. And yet there they...

The Trump administration recently announced plans to dramatically expand deep-sea mining in the western Pacific. Indigenous and local leaders are pushing back hard. KCSB's Juliana Chandler has the story.

Plastic is ubiquitous. It is in the Arctic, in the depths of the Mariana Trench, and in the high mountaintops of the Pyrenees. It is in the air we breathe and the water we drink. Nanoplastics penetrate our cell walls. Plastic is not just any material—it is emblematic of life in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In Plastic Matter (Duke UP, 2022), Heather Davis traces plastic's relations to geology, media, biology, and race to show how matter itself has come to be understood as pliable, disposable, and consumable. The invention and widespread use of plastic, Davis contends, reveals the dominance of the Western orientation to matter and its assumption that matter exists to be endlessly manipulated and controlled by humans. Plastic's materiality and pliability reinforces these expectations of what matter should be and do. Davis charts these relations to matter by mapping the queer multispecies relationships between humans and plastic-eating bacteria and analyzing photography that documents the racialized environmental violence of plastic production. In so doing, Davis provokes readers to reexamine their relationships to matter and life in light of plastic's saturation. Adam Bobeck is a PhD candidate in Cultural Anthropology at the University of Leipzig. His PhD is entitled “Object-Oriented Azadari: Shi'i Muslim Rituals and Ontology”. For more about his work, see www.adambobeck.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/geography

Plastic is ubiquitous. It is in the Arctic, in the depths of the Mariana Trench, and in the high mountaintops of the Pyrenees. It is in the air we breathe and the water we drink. Nanoplastics penetrate our cell walls. Plastic is not just any material—it is emblematic of life in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In Plastic Matter (Duke UP, 2022), Heather Davis traces plastic's relations to geology, media, biology, and race to show how matter itself has come to be understood as pliable, disposable, and consumable. The invention and widespread use of plastic, Davis contends, reveals the dominance of the Western orientation to matter and its assumption that matter exists to be endlessly manipulated and controlled by humans. Plastic's materiality and pliability reinforces these expectations of what matter should be and do. Davis charts these relations to matter by mapping the queer multispecies relationships between humans and plastic-eating bacteria and analyzing photography that documents the racialized environmental violence of plastic production. In so doing, Davis provokes readers to reexamine their relationships to matter and life in light of plastic's saturation. Adam Bobeck is a PhD candidate in Cultural Anthropology at the University of Leipzig. His PhD is entitled “Object-Oriented Azadari: Shi'i Muslim Rituals and Ontology”. For more about his work, see www.adambobeck.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

Plastic is ubiquitous. It is in the Arctic, in the depths of the Mariana Trench, and in the high mountaintops of the Pyrenees. It is in the air we breathe and the water we drink. Nanoplastics penetrate our cell walls. Plastic is not just any material—it is emblematic of life in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In Plastic Matter (Duke UP, 2022), Heather Davis traces plastic's relations to geology, media, biology, and race to show how matter itself has come to be understood as pliable, disposable, and consumable. The invention and widespread use of plastic, Davis contends, reveals the dominance of the Western orientation to matter and its assumption that matter exists to be endlessly manipulated and controlled by humans. Plastic's materiality and pliability reinforces these expectations of what matter should be and do. Davis charts these relations to matter by mapping the queer multispecies relationships between humans and plastic-eating bacteria and analyzing photography that documents the racialized environmental violence of plastic production. In so doing, Davis provokes readers to reexamine their relationships to matter and life in light of plastic's saturation. Adam Bobeck is a PhD candidate in Cultural Anthropology at the University of Leipzig. His PhD is entitled “Object-Oriented Azadari: Shi'i Muslim Rituals and Ontology”. For more about his work, see www.adambobeck.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/critical-theory

Plastic is ubiquitous. It is in the Arctic, in the depths of the Mariana Trench, and in the high mountaintops of the Pyrenees. It is in the air we breathe and the water we drink. Nanoplastics penetrate our cell walls. Plastic is not just any material—it is emblematic of life in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In Plastic Matter (Duke UP, 2022), Heather Davis traces plastic's relations to geology, media, biology, and race to show how matter itself has come to be understood as pliable, disposable, and consumable. The invention and widespread use of plastic, Davis contends, reveals the dominance of the Western orientation to matter and its assumption that matter exists to be endlessly manipulated and controlled by humans. Plastic's materiality and pliability reinforces these expectations of what matter should be and do. Davis charts these relations to matter by mapping the queer multispecies relationships between humans and plastic-eating bacteria and analyzing photography that documents the racialized environmental violence of plastic production. In so doing, Davis provokes readers to reexamine their relationships to matter and life in light of plastic's saturation. Adam Bobeck is a PhD candidate in Cultural Anthropology at the University of Leipzig. His PhD is entitled “Object-Oriented Azadari: Shi'i Muslim Rituals and Ontology”. For more about his work, see www.adambobeck.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/science-technology-and-society

Plastic is ubiquitous. It is in the Arctic, in the depths of the Mariana Trench, and in the high mountaintops of the Pyrenees. It is in the air we breathe and the water we drink. Nanoplastics penetrate our cell walls. Plastic is not just any material—it is emblematic of life in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In Plastic Matter (Duke UP, 2022), Heather Davis traces plastic's relations to geology, media, biology, and race to show how matter itself has come to be understood as pliable, disposable, and consumable. The invention and widespread use of plastic, Davis contends, reveals the dominance of the Western orientation to matter and its assumption that matter exists to be endlessly manipulated and controlled by humans. Plastic's materiality and pliability reinforces these expectations of what matter should be and do. Davis charts these relations to matter by mapping the queer multispecies relationships between humans and plastic-eating bacteria and analyzing photography that documents the racialized environmental violence of plastic production. In so doing, Davis provokes readers to reexamine their relationships to matter and life in light of plastic's saturation. Adam Bobeck is a PhD candidate in Cultural Anthropology at the University of Leipzig. His PhD is entitled “Object-Oriented Azadari: Shi'i Muslim Rituals and Ontology”. For more about his work, see www.adambobeck.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The legendary (and unhinged) caller known only as “Master D” phoned in twice and delivered back-to-back performances for the ages.   Call #1 – Underwater and furious He sounded like he was calling from the Mariana Trench on a 1998 GoPhone. After Clay couldn't understand a word, Master D was told to call back with better service. Classic radio chaos.   Call #2 – Full-throttle, zero-filter rant Master D returned crystal-clear and immediately went nuclear:      

In today's episode, Jordan sits down with Doctor Joseph Dituri, a deep sea specialist whose career spans Navy diving, submarine rescue and groundbreaking work in hyperbaric medicine. Dituri traces his path from an unconventional start in New York to becoming a one atmosphere suit pilot and commander trusted with some of the most demanding operations underwater. He explains what it takes to stay calm under extreme pressure, how military divers are trained to function in chaos and why leadership becomes a life or death responsibility in the deep. The conversation covers his traumatic brain injury recovery, the realities behind clandestine underwater missions, the Titan submersible tragedy, James Cameron's descent into the Mariana Trench and the engineering challenges of pushing human limits beneath the ocean. Dituri also discusses his one hundred day underwater research mission and how the findings may shape the future of space travel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Located in an arch sweeping to the east and south of the Marina Islands and Guam is the deepest part of the ocean, the Mariana Trench.  Running over 2,500 kilometers or 1,200 miles, the very deepest part of the trench is known as Challenger Deep.  At the very bottom of the sea, there is no light, temperatures are almost freezing, and the pressure is enough to crush almost anything that might make it down there.   It is so inhospitable that the number of people who have ever been there is about the number who have walked on the moon.  Learn more about the Mariana Trench and Challenger Deep on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Sponsors Quince Go to quince.com/daily for 365-day returns, plus free shipping on your order! Mint Mobile Get your 3-month Unlimited wireless plan for just 15 bucks a month at mintmobile.com/eed Stash Go to get.stash.com/EVERYTHING to see how you can receive $25 towards your first stock purchase. Newspaper.com Go to Newspapers.com to get a gift subscription for the family historian in your life! Subscribe to the podcast!  https://everything-everywhere.com/everything-everywhere-daily-podcast/ -------------------------------- Executive Producer: Charles Daniel Associate Producers: Austin Oetken & Cameron Kieffer   Become a supporter on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/everythingeverywhere Discord Server: https://discord.gg/UkRUJFh Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/everythingeverywhere/ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/everythingeverywheredaily Twitter: https://twitter.com/everywheretrip Website: https://everything-everywhere.com/  Disce aliquid novi cotidie Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tune in and listen to Mike and Jay discuss various mysteries of the deep such as, USO's, the Mariana Trench, the Greenland Shark and much more.  Dive into the deep end of Eon Project nonsensicals on the latest episode.  The truth exists, believe it!!!

Victor L. Vescovo is a private investor with over thirty years of experience in a variety of complex business situations. He co-founded private equity firm Insight Equity in 2002 with his business partner, Ted Beneski and raised over $1.5 billion in equity capital across four funds. In 2023, he departed Insight in order to focus on his own investments with new capabilities to support industrial startups, life sciences, and other areas of venture capital and special situations. Victor received his bachelor's degree from Stanford University, a Master's Degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and received an MBA from Harvard Business School where he graduated as a Baker Scholar. Additionally, Victor served 20 years in the U.S. Navy Reserve as an intelligence and targeting officer, retiring in 2013 as a Commander. In 2017, Victor completed the “Explorer's Grand Slam” which requires climbing the highest peak on all seven of the world's continents including Mt. Everest and skiing at least 100 kilometers to the North and South Poles. He piloted the first repeated dives to the ocean's deepest point, Challenger Deep, in the Pacific's Mariana Trench - now fifteen times, and in August 2019 became the first person to visit “The Five Deeps,” the deepest point in all five of the world's oceans. Victor has now personally explored the bottom of seventeen deep ocean trenches and has made three dives to the Titanic including the only solo dive ever made there. He and his team also discovered and surveyed the two deepest shipwrecks in the world: the USS Johnston in 2021 and the deepest, the USS Samuel B. Roberts at 22,600 feet, in 2022. In 2025, the US Navy announced that T-AGOS 26, a new ocean surveillance vessel of the Explorer class, would be named after him. He is also a commercially rated, multi-engine jet, glider, seaplane, and helicopter pilot, a certified submersible test pilot, and recently flew into space on Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket, becoming the first person in history to climb Mount Everest, dive to the bottom of the ocean, and visit space. Shawn Ryan Show Sponsors: Buy PSYOP Now - https://psyopshow.com https://tryarmra.com/srs https://aura.com/srs https://betterhelp.com/srs This episode is sponsored. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/srs and get on your way to being your best self. https://bubsnaturals.com – USE CODE SHAWN https://bunkr.life – USE CODE SRS Go to https://bunkr.life/SRS and use code “SRS” to get 25% off your family plan. https://shawnlikesgold.com https://moinkbox.com/srs https://mypatriotsupply.com/srs https://patriotmobile.com/srs https://prizepicks.onelink.me/lmeo/srs https://rocketmoney.com/srs https://ROKA.com – USE CODE SRS https://shopify.com/srs https://USCCA.com/srs Victor Vescovo Links: X - https://x.com/VictorVescovo IG - https://www.instagram.com/victorlvescovo Caladan Capital - https://www.caladancapital.com Caladan Oceanic - http://www.caladanoceanic.com Wiki - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Vescovo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Dr Todd Bond is marine ecologist who goes where very few humans have ever been: the underworld, or the deep ocean. There, he studies the strange, scary and often cute creatures who call the deepest parts of our oceans home.This part of the ocean starts at 6000 metres deep, and is known as the 'Hadal Zone'.Todd travels there in a small titanium submersible, not much bigger than his own 6'4'' frame.Waiting there for Todd, in the inky darkness, is mysterious and magic, and is still largely unexplored by humans.And when he can't get there himself, Todd sends cameras down to poke around these trenches and caverns.Dr Todd Bond is the Deputy Director of the Minderoo-UWA Deep-Sea Research Centre at The University of Western Australia. You can read more about what the centre does online.This episode of Conversations was produced by Meggie Morris. Executive Producer is Nicola Harrison.It explores fish, marine biology, marine science, Twiggy Forrest, deep sea, space, exploration, human curiosity, why fish matter, bio-medicine, submarines, OceanGate, Titan submersible implosion, James Cameron, Anglar Fish, snail fish, UWA, university, PhD, doctorate, how to study fish, why we study fish, Mariana Trench, Christmas Island, Java Trench, puffer fish, Antarctica, marine park, conservation, off-shore mining, manganese mining, deep sea mining, ethical science.To binge even more great episodes of the Conversations podcast with Richard Fidler and Sarah Kanowski go the ABC listen app (Australia) or wherever you get your podcasts. There you'll find hundreds of the best thought-provoking interviews with authors, writers, artists, politicians, psychologists, musicians, and celebrities.

What secrets lie hidden in the deepest, darkest place on Earth? The Mariana Trench is a hostile world of crushing pressure and freezing darkness, once believed to be completely devoid of life. In this video, we plunge into the abyss to witness the titanic geological forces that created this chasm and relive the harrowing missions of the few who dared to explore it. What bizarre creatures thrive against all odds, lurking in the darkness below? ▀▀▀▀▀▀Journey to the bottom of the Mariana Trench.

Australia's Chief Scientist, Professor Tony Haymet, is a world-class scientist, an oceanographer, a chemist and an entrepreneur. He's held senior positions at the CSIRO and was chair of the Antarctic Science Foundation, and his underwater robots once even  helped Hollywood director James Cameron reach the bottom of the Mariana Trench. 

The Learning Leader Show with Ryan Hawk Go to www.LearningLeader.com for full show notes This is brought to you by Insight Global. If you need to hire 1 person, hire a team of people, or transform your business through Talent or Technical Services, Insight Global's team of 30,000 people around the world have the hustle and grit to deliver. www.InsightGlobal.com/LearningLeader Larry Connor is an entrepreneur, non-profit activist investor, and adventurist. In business, he is best known for founding The Connor Group, a real estate investment firm, and growing it from $0 to $5 billion in assets. Outside of work, Larry lives an adventurous life. Within a 12 month period Larry did something that had never been done before. He completed 3 dives to the deepest part of the ocean (the Mariana Trench) AND traveled to the International Space Station as an astronaut. In addition to that, Larry is a private pilot and was part of a Le Mans racing team that has won championships. “At The Connor Group, we don't have, and never will have, a mission statement. We have culture. When you have the latter, the former is not necessary.” The culture is built on 5 core values, on which we don't compromise: Do the right thing People count Live the Circle of Success Think long-term, not short-term Relentless pursuit of excellence “We exist, quite simply, to be the best.” “We don't hire for experience. We don't hire for knowledge. We don't care where you went to school. We hire for personality traits. Especially in leadership roles. You have to have the big 6. You have to have all 6. They are: 1. Be able to motivate and inspire others. 2. Self-accountability and ability to hold others accountable in an honest, direct manner. 3. Organizational multi-tasking. The speed of the game is fast. 4. Cultural fit. 5. Grit. Doing the thing that others say are impossible. 6. Work orientation. If you want to come in at 8:30, take a 90-minute lunch, and leave at 4:30, The Connor Group is not for you. “People never outperform their own self-image. So aim high!” “Mediocre people don't like high achievers and high achievers don't like mediocre people.” “By definition, if you want to be exceptional, you have to be different. If you're like everybody else, you're going to end up like everybody else.” In 2008, Larry said, “We simply decided we weren't going to participate in the global recession.” 3 P's - People, Plan, Process People's performances are measured through daily, weekly, and monthly IAMs (Individual Accountability Meetings). Clear expectations and clear management. When I asked him about becoming a billionaire, Larry immediately jumped to the impact he's having on others. “There are far more important standards than money. How well have you treated your associates? Have you made them better people? How much have you done to help other people? Have you made a difference?” All of that is available to all of us regardless of us being a billionaire or not. The company headquarters are next door to a hangar that houses a working model of the “Wright B Flyer” - The Wright Brothers' first production airplane.

The Mean Boys (Keith Carey (@keithtellsjokes), Tom Goss (@tomgosscomedy), and Connor McSpadden (@connormcspadden)) have reunited to see Kyle and Matthew off to the land of ended podcasts. A land that exists deep in the Mariana Trench. The same home where the great sea beast The Meg resides. Plus, we discuss “forbidden episodes”, sexual vaping, Matthew is treated with love and respect.   Check out Burnside playing video games at https://www.twitch.tv/stayindoorsburnside   Get Kyle Clark's I'm a Person: Director's Cut You can go to www.kyleclarkcomed.bandcamp.com and pay what you want for the full uncut set from “I'm a ”Person which includes 20 mins of unheard material, plus an additional 15 minutes of never released bonus live recordings!   Send Us Stuff! We have a PO Box! This Is Rad! / Kyle Clark PO Box #198 2470 Stearns St Simi Valley, CA 93063   Tales from an Analog Future Get it HERE: https://gumroad.com/analogfuturecomic   Get Kyle's album “Absolute Terror” here: https://smarturl.it/absoluteterror   Go to www.Patreon.com/thisisrad and subscribe to send in questions for our Listener Questions episodes, to get exclusive bonus episodes, extra content, and access to the This Is Rad Discord server!   Check out our merch!     Also! Check out merch for Kyle's record label Radland Records https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/4109261-radland-logo   Also! Laura started an online store for her art! Go buy all of her stuff!!! https://www.teepublic.com/stores/lmknight?utm_campaign=8178&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=lmknight   Follow us on social media or whatever! Instagram: @thisisradpodcast @kyleclarkisrad @lmknightart @8armedspidey (Frank Gillen TIR's social media!) @thearcknight (techno lord Adam Cross)   Twitter: @ThisIsRadPod @kyleclarkisrad @MatthewBurnside @LMKnightArt  

Deep sea relaxation meets crushing geological indifference as we drift down to the Mariana Trench, Earth's most famous abyss and arguably its least inviting vacation spot. Perfect for insomnia relief or anyone who needs to feel small before bed. Want More? Request a topic: https://www.icantsleeppodcast.com/request-a-topic Listen ad-free & support: https://icantsleep.supportingcast.fm/ Shop sleep-friendly products: https://www.icantsleeppodcast.com/sponsors Join the discussion on Discord: https://discord.gg/myhGhVUhn7 This content is derived from the Wikipedia article on Mariana Trench, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) license. Read the full article: Wikipedia - Mariana Trench. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With Carmen still gone the fellers dive deeper than the Mariana Trench on topics such as: America's future, television as social commentary, and why they aren't funny together. Lotta of Patreon mess is up.

First up this week, Newsletter Editor Christie Wilcox joins host Sarah Crespi to discuss stories from the sea, including why scientists mounted cameras on seabirds, backward and upside-down; newly discovered organisms from the world's deepest spot, the Mariana Trench; and how extremely venomous, blue-lined octopus males use their toxin on females in order to mate. Read more or subscribe at science.org/scienceadviser.   Next on the show, J. Chris McKnight, a senior research fellow in the Sea Mammal Research Unit at the University of St. Andrews, talks about testing free-living seals to see how they respond to different carbon dioxide or oxygen levels in the air. It turns out they don't respond like other mammals, which go into panic under high carbon dioxide; instead, seals appear to directly detect oxygen, a safer bet when your life is mostly spent diving deep underwater.   This week's episode was produced with help from Podigy.   About the Science Podcast   Authors: Sarah Crespi; Christie Wilcox Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Let us re-introduce ourselves and tell you a story about an episode of My Brother, My Brother, and Me. In that episode, we give some extremely funny and helpful advice about graduating Pokemon, Ron Funches hosting Shark Week, and over-decorated offices. But that's a different episode; this episode is about that episode. It's a banger. Suggested talking points: What are the Eighth Notes, Goo-goo-ga-ga Calendar, Munch Jod, Eel Day  Palestine Children's Relief Fund: https://www.pcrf.net/

Surprise! Today you get a little treat: a regular episode! Bryan & Krissy giggle their way through the perils of the world. No Infomercial today! Insure Bryan's hands Plastic fruit (scary) The Mariana Trench?? The Quantum Witch returns (slay) Sometimes the show just isn't good, and that's not our fault! Those people… Clubhouse Brutal tweets about us Google gemini really said nah Bryan airing me (Producer Christina) out because I air him out in the show notes 72 year old Bill Belichick is dating a 23 year old (BARF) Krissy with the Below Deck reference MILF Manor crossing the line LINKS: Send us show ideas, comments, questions or concerns by texting us   212.433.3TCB text or leave us a voicemail Watch TCB on YouTube Watch for Live Show info at www.tcbpodcast.com Creator: Bryan Green Co-Host: Bryan Green Co-Host: Krissy Hoadley Producer: Christina A.  Producer: Gustavo B.  Download & Listen on the Audacy app To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.