Russian traveler Fyodor Konyukhov plans to dive to the bottom of the Mariana trench. On Monday, August 1, reports TASS.
At a briefing in Moscow’s Domodedovo airport grooms compared his new project with completed flight around the Earth in a balloon. “I was now at the height of 11 kilometres 200 metres and the Mariana trench — 11 kilometers 25 meters”, — he said.
Among other next big expeditions Konyukhova flight in the stratosphere. When the traveller intends to carry out his ideas, he said.
Monday, August 1, the Russians returned to Moscow after round-the-world flight in a balloon. The journey ended on Saturday, July 23, in Australia. Grooms flew 35 thousand kilometers in 11 days and 6 hours and set several world records. Traveler was launched on 12 July from the town of Northam in the West of the country.
The Mariana trench — the deepest known in the world of submarine trenches. It is located in the West of the Pacific ocean. In may, the Americans began an online broadcast of what is happening in the Mariana trench.
