In tandem with Deep Oceans Expeditions the group also plans to take 40 people on a dive below the North Pole in August 2000, for a similar price.

CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia | Travel Watch

Deep in oceans around the world lurks a type of worm without a mouth, anus or gut that makes its living by eating the bones of whales and other deceased sea creatures.

MSN: Zombie worm has no mouth �� but it feasts on whale bones

The picture Mariner 9 painted of modern Mars was of a static desert, with none of the jostling of tectonic plates that makes life interesting for geologists by throwing up island chains and mountain ranges, and opening deep basins for oceans to form in.

ECONOMIST: Martian chronicles

The deep circulation of the oceans controls the weather and climate of the earth by moving heat, generating storms and controlling rainfall and droughts.

UNESCO: Natural Sciences

New sea bed is constantly being created in the middles of the oceans - flowing out as hot lava, and rapidly cooling on contact with cold deep sea water.

BBC: The Pacific 'Ring of Fire'