Dive 217 · R/V Meridian Trench · Kermadec Hadal 04

Read the dive as a sounding.

A review surface for crewed bathyscaphe operations — every reading set at its depth, the descent plotted as one continuous profile from surface to seabed.

Depth−9 842 m
Pressure986 bar
Bottom time02:14
O₂ reserve41 hrs
−0 m

Three rules for a dive surface

Built so a surface controller can read 14 hours of telemetry like a logbook, not a wall of gauges.

01 · Strata

Every reading at its depth

The page is stratified by dive phase. A number is never loose — it sits at the depth it was sampled, so context comes for free.

02 · Profile

One continuous sounding

A plotted depth-vs-time curve runs the full page. Descent, bottom, and ascent read as one line — the shape of the whole dive at a glance.

03 · Logbook

Findings, not floating notes

Commentary is leader-connected to the chart or sample it explains. The review reads as a document, with the evidence kept beside it.

Descent profile · Dive 217

Depth
9 842 m
Pressure
986 bar
Sea temp
1.4 °C
Descent
38 m/min
HOLD 1 900 m
Hold at 1,900 m: a 6-minute buoyancy check before committing to the hadal leg — logged, then resumed.

The shape of the whole dive, in one line.

Descent rate, holds, the bottom traverse, and the climb out all live on a single plotted profile. Anomalies show as a kink in the curve before they show as an alarm — and the surface controller sees the dive as one decision, not a stream of disconnected gauges.

Depth-locked readings Threshold marks Biolum channel

Take a dive deeper than the dashboard.

Open Sounding on your next operation and read the descent as the long-form review it always was.