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September 28, 2017

What happens when you take a Styrofoam cup, put it in a basket on a deep-sea submersible, and take it down to a depth of a thousand or so meters?

Find out in the latest issue of Caltech magazine.

The styrofoam cup at right was crushed by intense pressure more than 1,000 meters below the surface of sea.