Tues, March 1, 7:30 pm – Rob McCallum, our March Great Presenter, will present “Working Under Pressure: Ocean Exploration, 7 Miles Down.” Register here for the Zoom link.
Wayland resident Rob McCallum is a professional explorer and expedition leader credited with many world records and world firsts. His team have achieved over 1200 expeditions to some of the world’s most challenging environments. Join us as he describes his recent dive to Challenger Deep, Mariana Trench (36,000ft), a location that has never known daylight and is subject to colossal pressures of 8 tons per square inch. Rob will describe the critical steps necessary to venture beyond the known.
The area of the ocean below 20,000 ft is known as ’the Hadal Zone’. It is regarded as the last frontier of exploration on Earth. We gaze up into the infinite void of ‘outer space’ yet rarely consider the vast ecosystems contained within the oceans ‘inner space’. Rob has planned, managed and led a three-year program that has placed humans to the deepest point of all five oceans on a mission described as “the most significant exploration expedition in a century.”