The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution will keep the vessel that took the movie director to the deepest part of the ocean last year.

Researchers find remarkably active bacteria in the Mariana Trench, where they live under pressure 1,000 times greater than at the surface.

The movie director-turned-explorer made the 6.8-mile drop to the deepest point on the seafloor, but wasn’t too impressed by what he found.