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DSSV Coin & Cup Competition

For your chance to win a money can’t buy coin from our friends at DSSV Pressure Drop all you have to do is purchase a raffle ticket.

All proceeds go to the Essex & Herts Air Ambulance.

Contact us via our FB page to arrange the donation and ticket numbers.

The coin was transported in the cockpit of the submersible Triton to the depths of the Marina Trench, whilst the cup was located in a depressurised zone and compressed from a normal polystyrene cup to a coin sized cup.

Tickets are £5 each or £20 for 5 tickets.Donations via PayPal Friends and Family or Just Giving (contact for email or link).

We can also receive via cash if you are local. Preferred method is PayPal or cash due to no fees and 100% then going to EHAAT.

Terms & Conditions

  • Free delivery to the local area (20 miles radius of Wickford)
  • Delivery fee or collection in person to be arranged by winner if out of area
  • Tickets will not be allocated until payment is received
  • Ticket number allocated in order of purchase
  • Draw date TBC, or as soon as we have sold all 100 tickets
  • Raffle has 1 winner and is for 1 coin + cup that have been down to the Western Pool with the certificate of authenticity

The Coin and cup have been down to an amazing depth at the Western Pool in the Mariana Trench on the 8th of April 2021. The coins then continued there amazing journey on board the DSSV Pressure Drop Ship traveling the seas until it then arrived at Spain with an amazing crew member and was then brought back to the UK for us.Tim Macdonald (Australia) and Rob McCallum (New Zealand) completed a submersible dive to the bottom of the Challenger Deep, Mariana Trench. The pair achieved a preliminary depth of 10,925 meters at the deepest point of the world’s ocean, setting a depth record for both nations as they became the deepest diving Australian and Kiwi ever. The successful dive was announced from the DSSV Pressure Drop, the expedition’s 68m support ship over the Mariana Trench, located 360kms SW of Guam.The 12-hour dive was completed in the world’s only submersible certified for operations at any depth in any ocean—the DSV ‘Limiting Factor. ’The submersible, a Triton 36,000/2 owned by Caladan Oceanic, is the world’s only private full-ocean-depth vehicle and is best known as having taken humans to the deepest point in each of the world’s five oceans during the world record breaking Five Deeps Expedition in 2019.Follow the DSSV Pressure Drop team on their Facebook page, it is amazing seeing some of the expeditions and challenges they have completed.

DSSV Facebook page

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