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It used to be said that more people had walked on the surface of the Moon than had dived to the deepest part of Earth's oceans. Not anymore.

Kelly Walsh, the son of the great ocean explorer Don Walsh, has just descended to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, almost 11km down in the Pacific.

He made the dive 60 years after his father created history in doing so.

It means Kelly is the 12th person to visit the trench floor - the same as the number of Apollo moonwalkers.

語言點

surface n. 表面；臺面；桌面

· 詞根：sur- 在……表面/外面

· surgery n. 外科手術

dive vi. 跳水，潛水

· dive into the water: 跳水

· snorkeling n. 浮潛

· scuba diving: 深潛

· submersible n. 潛水器

explorer n. 探險家

· explore v. 探險

descend vt. 下降，向下傾斜（go/come down）；（文學作品中）降臨

· The plane descends.飛機下降。

· The hill descends. 山開始出現陡坡。

· Night began to descend. 黑夜降臨了。

Mariana Trench: 馬里亞納海溝

· trench n. 壕溝，戰壕，海溝

trench floor: 溝底

· ocean/valley floor: 海/谷底

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