The Nereus team is preparing for a six - week voyage — funded
by the National Science Foundation to the tune of about $ 1.4 million — beginning in February 2014 to study the Pacific
Ocean's Kermadec
Trench, which is about 10 kilometers
deep.
Back in 2012, news outlets covered a special expedition
by filmmaker James Cameron as he dove
deep into the sea in his own Deepsea Challenger submersible on 13 dives into the New Britain
Trench off Papua New Guinea and the Mariana
Trench, where he explored the
deepest part of the
ocean.