This week in numbers

12

After a 12-hour, 10,925m submersible dive to the bottom of the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench Rob McCallum and Tim Macdonald became the deepestdiving Kiwi and Australian ever.

3000

-year-old city unearthed by archaeologists is the largest ancient city found in Egypt. The “lost golden city” of Aten is one of the most important finds since the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922.

86

-year-old Roy Baldock could be NZ’s oldest rugby player. Roy is, by some margin, the oldest player in the Old Devils, the Golden Oldies team of Paengaroa’s Eastern Districts Rugby Club, which is holding its annual tournament tomorrow.