MARIANA
A lone submersible descending through a cathedral shaft of surface light into the deep ocean.

The last frontier isn’t above us

Descend.

The first luxury descent into the abyss. Private submersibles, a habitat suite on the trench wall, and the silence of the meditative sublime.

Begin descent
The Descent

Three thresholds between you and the bottom of the world.

A MARIANA descent is measured not in distance but in stillness. Keep scrolling — and begin to sink.

The Twilight Zone at −1,000 m.
The Midnight Zone at −4,000 m.
The Trench Floor at −10,924 m.
−1,000 m101 bar
MESOPELAGIC

The Twilight Zone

The last threads of surface light dissolve into cobalt. Schools pass as silhouettes. The world above becomes a memory you can no longer see — only feel.

The MARIANA submersible — a pearl-white composite hull with a spherical acrylic viewport dome and cyan running lights, suspended in the black ocean.
MARIANA-Ⅰ · class submersible
The Vessel

Engineered for the
pressure of silence.

A pearl-white composite hull around a single spherical viewport — the largest acrylic dome ever taken to full ocean depth. Near-automotive design language, recessed cyan running lights, and a cabin engineered to feel less like a craft than a private room with a view of the void.

Crush depth
11,000m
Endurance
96hrs
Occupancy
2 + 1pilot
Viewport
1.8m acrylic
Descent rate
40m/min
Surface light
+0lux
The Habitat

A private suite on the trench wall.

A MARIANA habitat suite — warm bone, pale oak and bronze interior with an enormous curved acrylic viewport onto the glowing black ocean.
SUITE 14·−4,000 m·MIDNIGHT ZONE
01

The viewport

A floor-to-ceiling curved acrylic wall onto the black, glowing ocean. The only screen you'll want.

02

Warm against cold

Bone, pale oak and brushed bronze under hidden cove light — a warm room suspended in the cold abyss.

03

Silence, engineered

Acoustic isolation tuned to the trench. No surface noise reaches you. Only the slow drift of light.

The Expedition

Four days to the bottom of the world.

Stage 01
0 m
Day 1 · 09:00

Embark

Board the MARIANA tender at the surface station. A final systems check, a glass of something cold, and the hatch seals behind you. The last daylight you'll see for four days.

Stage 02
0 → −4,000 m
3 hours

The Descent

A slow, controlled fall through the Twilight and Midnight zones. The blue drains from the water. The world above becomes a rumour, then a memory, then nothing at all.

Stage 03
−4,000 m
Two nights

The Habitat

Suite 14, anchored to the trench wall. Bioluminescence for a nightlight. Dinner served at the curved viewport while the deep drifts past. Sleep at the bottom of the world.

Stage 04
−10,924 m
4 hours

The Trench

A guided submersible excursion to the Challenger Deep — the single deepest point on Earth. Pressure enough to crush a submarine. Stillness enough to hear your own heart.

Stage 05
−4,000 → 0 m
3 hours

Return

A measured ascent back toward the light. The blue returns, impossibly bright. You break the surface into open air. You will not be the same.

Dispatches from the deep

Stills carried back up from the descent.

The Bloom — −2,400 m · floodlights meet a jellyfish swarm
The Bloom
−2,400 m · floodlights meet a jellyfish swarm
The Viewport — −4,000 m · a guest, alone with the dark
The Viewport
−4,000 m · a guest, alone with the dark
First Light — −6,100 m · bioluminescence on skin
First Light
−6,100 m · bioluminescence on skin
The Shaft — −800 m · the last of the sun
The Shaft
−800 m · the last of the sun
The Floor — −10,924 m · life at the bottom of the world
The Floor
−10,924 m · life at the bottom of the world
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Choose your descent

Three ways down.

Twilight−1,000 m

The Day Dive

Single day

A day's descent into the Twilight Zone and back to the light.

  • Surface station access
  • Day submersible · 2 guests
  • Twilight-zone descent
  • Surface dining
from £140,000per expedition · by application
Most chosen
Midnight−4,000 m

The Overnight

Two nights

Two nights in Suite 14, asleep at the edge of the Midnight Zone.

  • Everything in Twilight
  • Habitat suite · 2 nights
  • Dining at the viewport
  • Night bioluminescence drift
from £520,000per expedition · by application
Trench−10,924 m

The Expedition

Four days

The full descent to the Challenger Deep — the bottom of the world.

  • Everything in Midnight
  • Challenger Deep excursion
  • Personal pilot & naturalist
  • Commemorative dossier
from £1.4Mper expedition · by application
Reserve a Descent

Join the first descent.

The first season is by reservation only. Register your interest and the MARIANA team will be in touch when descents open.

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