Deepest Places On The Ocean Floor

This article takes a look at some of the deepest oceanic trenches in the world.

Deepest places on the ocean floor.

After scaling the mid ocean ridge and traversing hundreds to thousands of miles of abyssal plains you might encounter an ocean trench. Trash found littering ocean floor in deepest ever sub dive. Darker blues represent deeper spots. Generally oceanic trenches reach between 1 9 and 2 5 miles below the nearby ocean floor.

The mariana trench or marianas trench is located in the western pacific ocean about 200 kilometres 124 mi east of the mariana islands. The four deepest oceanic trenches in the world challenger deep. The challenger deep is the deepest spot in the ocean floor. Http goo gl lywszy the mariana trench is loca.

Subscribe for a new video every week. It is crescent shaped and measures about 2 550 km 1 580 mi in length and 69 km 43 mi in width. His dive went. It is the deepest oceanic trench on earth.

It s the deepest trench in the southern hemisphere and is the locale of the fastest plate tectonic speed that s been measured. Finally you would ascend tens of thousands of feet back up the continental slope and across the continental shelf. This trench s deepest point is called the galathea depth and is 34 587 ft deep. To a point in the pacific ocean s mariana trench that is the deepest place on earth.

This image of the challenger deep in the mariana trench the deepest spot on earth was made using sound waves counched off the sea floor. The mariana trench for example is the deepest place in the ocean at 36 201 feet. Oceanic trenches in the ocean are long but narrow topographic depressions on the sea floor the deepest parts of the ocean floor. Measuring the greatest ocean depth.

The maximum known depth is 10 984 metres 36 037 ft 25 metres 82 ft 6 825 miles at the southern end of a. In 2010 the united states center for coastal ocean mapping measured the depth of the challenger deep at 10 994 meters 36 070 feet below sea level with an estimated vertical accuracy of 40 meters.