Cutting It Short
The team predicted that the temperatures at that depth would be much lower. Unfortunately, that wasn’t the case, and the 80-degree rise over what they expected demolished all of their equipment. It was simply too hot for them to keep going. At the time, there was no material in the world that could survive the heat, meaning they had no choice but to stop.
Dmitry and his team were forced to make the dreaded phone call that they had fought to avoid for all those years.