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Tourist voyage to the bottom of the sea

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The deepest part of the ocean - the Mariana Trench - which lies 10.91 kilometres (6.78 miles) down in the western Pacific - could soon be on the tourist trail.

A Florida-based company is testing out a prototype submersible, ahead of developing a full-ocean-depth model. Rebecca Morelle went to get a glimpse of what underwater tourists might see.

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