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Very odd question: why is this wiki entry worded like this?
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The inquiry regarding the wording of the Wikipedia entry on the Hadal zone highlights a significant confusion surrounding the depth records of manned research submersibles. Specifically, the question arises about how the Jiaolong, a submersible that reportedly reached around 7,000 meters, is presented as breaking records when compared to the Challenger Deep and Deepsea Challenger missions, which exceeded depths of 10,000 meters.
The last paragraph in particular confuses me. If the Challenger Deep and Deepsea Challenger missions both used manned research submersibles that reached a maximum depth of over 10 thousand meters deep, then how does the Jiaolong, another manned research submersible, break those records at barely 7 thousand? It just seems... objectively wrong? And all of the sources for the Jiaolong paragraph lead to invalid pages now. The wiki page in question is "The Hadal zone" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadal_zone), and the entry is near the bottom of the page. I have no idea where else to ask this, and it's driving me nuts for some reason.
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