What’s the deepest-living fish ever recorded? Not this one! (But they’re related.) Check out our new Ocean Exploration Fact to learn about how snailfish and other “deepest fish” contenders make things work at the absolute limits for vertebrate life. https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/ocean-fact/what-is-the-deepest-living-fish/ This snailfish, which looked to our team like it was grinning, was found during NOAA Ocean Exploration’s Seascape Alaska 5 Expedition in 2023. There's just something about tha

The Kola Superdeep Borehole: The Deepest Point Ever Reached by Humans The Kola Superdeep Borehole remains one of humanity’s most ambitious scientific drilling projects. Launched in 1970 by Soviet scientists on the Kola Peninsula in northwestern Russia, the borehole eventually reached a depth of 12.2 kilometers (7.6 miles), making it the deepest artificial point ever created in Earth’s crust. The objective was not to search for oil or minerals, but to advance scientific understanding of the conti