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Crewed submersible expeditions

Descents to 4,000 metres, into the largest and least-seen living space on Earth.

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More people have walked on the Moon than have reached the ocean's deepest floor. We charter the descent: pilot, pressure sphere, and four kilometres of falling dark.

Dive log · −200 M

Where sunlight surrenders

Two hundred metres down, the last blue light gives out. From here every glow you see is made by something alive.

Faint shafts of blue light fading into the deep ocean twilight zone
A swarm of bioluminescent jellyfish glowing cyan in black water
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The sea writes in light

Dive log · −1,000 M

No sun has ever reached this water

In the midnight zone your floodlights are the first daylight in four billion years. Something is always watching them.

A deep-sea anglerfish lit only by its own glowing lure

MOVE YOUR LIGHT ACROSS THE DARK

The DSV Halcyon submersible descending with floodlights on

DSV Halcyon

A three-person pressure sphere with a 180-degree acrylic viewport, rated well past the deepest point on any of our routes.

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2027 season

Three descents

Hydrothermal vent chimneys on the abyssal seafloor under submersible floodlights

The seafloor at four kilometres is still being built: fresh rock, boiling springs, and animals that have never needed the sun.

Go where sunlight
has never been.

Six guests per season. Expeditions depart from Horta, Ponta Delgada and Monterey.