Mariana Trench - The deepest part of the world's oceans

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 depression (geology), interesting place
The Mariana Trench (or Mariana's Trench) is a subduction zone and contains the deepest part of the world's oceans, and the deepest location on the surface of the Earth's crust. The deepest part is known as Challenger Deep. It has a maximum depth of about 11 km (6.8 mi), and is located in the western North Pacific Ocean, to the east and south of the Mariana Islands, near Guam.
The trench forms the boundary between two tectonic plates, where the Pacific Plate is subducted beneath the Philippine Plate. The bottom of the trench is farther below sea level than Mount Everest is above it (8,850m/29,035ft). At the bottom, the water column above exerts a pressure of 108.6 MPa, over one thousand times the standard atmospheric pressure at sea level.

China's deep-sea manned submersible dives 10,909 meters in Mariana Trench:
news.cgtn.com/news/2020-11-10/China-s-deep-sea-submersi...
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8937617/Chinas-manned-...


www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJt4eHng_Sg
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariana_Trench
Nearby cities:
Coordinates:   11°21'44"N   142°36'3"E

Comments

  • AT this point in time three people have been here.
  • On 23 January 1960 Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh descended in Trieste bathyscaphe and reached the depth of 10,916 m. On 26 March 2012 James Cameron in a solo manned descent in the DSV Deepsea Challenger reached the bottom at a recorded depth of 10,898.4 m.
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