One cannot hope to protect and nurture the ocean until one understands it.

This is one of the motivations behind the Five Deeps Expedition, which aims to reach the most isolated points of the planet – the bottom of the world’s five oceans – in a manned submersible vessel, along the way contributing to the fields of ecology, oceanography, marine biology, and geomorphology. Indeed, the expedition’s motto is ‘In Profundo: Cognitio’, which means ‘in the deeps: knowledge’. It conveys the mission to expand human technology and increase our understanding of the world through the exploration of the largest, unexplored and most inaccessible places left on Earth…