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Covering three-quarters of Earth’s surface, the ocean is the last frontier of exploration on our planet. Water pressure could overwhelm a diver below 200 feet and submarines before 1930 could dive no lower than 600 feet. The average depth of the ocean is 12,450 feet. In 1928, an engineer named Otis Barton presented a plan for a
