亞洲英文新聞-Japan deep-sea drilling probe sets world record

A Japanese deep-sea drilling probe has set a new world record for depth, reaching 7,740 meters (25,400 feet) below the sea surface, the research institute that launched it says.

The Chikyu, operated by the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, was digging the seabed off Japan's northern coast to take fault samples and study last year's devastating earthquake and tsunami.

The agency said Friday that the probe's drilling pipe hit the fault zone at 6,883.5 meters (22,600 feet) undersea before reaching the target of 7,740 meters Wednesday. That's nearly 8 kilometers (5 miles) deep.

Maritime organizations say the U.S. vessel Glomar Challenger set the previous record of 7,049.5 meters (23,130 feet) below sea surface in the Mariana Trench in 1978.

Questions:

1. What's the new world record for Japan?

2. Do you know Guinness Book of World Records?

3. Does Taiwan ever set this kind of record?

4. If you were to set a world record in anything, what would it be?

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