The Cayman trough is a 100-kilometre-long rift in the seabed between Jamaica and the Cayman Islands where the ocean floor is slowly pulling apart and new lava seeps up to fill the gap - a so-called ocean ridge. Such ridges are home to hydrothermal vents, and while vents at 3800 metres below the surface have been explored before, InterRidge plans to visit some of the world's deepest, which lie around 6000 metres down. At this depth, water doesn't boil until it reaches 500 °C.
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