The ‘smoking gun’ at the bottom of the ocean

ON March 23, Filipino oceanographer Deo Florence Onda and American explorer Victor Vescovo made a remarkable journey to the Emden Deep, the deepest spot in the Philippine Trench east of Mindanao. The event was historic in the sense that it was the first manned mission to the third deepest ocean depth on Earth and that it appropriately was made by a Filipino scientist as the Emden Deep is also the deepest point in Philippine waters.