Mariana Trench – The World’s Deepest Part…Amazing…

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The Mariana Trench is located in the Pacific Ocean (11″21′ North latitude and 142″ 12′ East longitude ), near Japan. As you probably already know, it is the deepest part of the earth’s oceans, and the deepest location of the earth itself. It was created by ocean-to-ocean subduction, a phenomena in which a plate topped by oceanic crust is subducted beneath another plate topped by oceanic crust.

Mariana Trench Facts:

1) The Mariana Trench is 2, 542 km (1,580 miles) long and 69 km (43 miles) wide.
2) The Mariana Trench is 36.201 feet deep. At a depth of 150 meters (approx. 500 feet), there is little if any light left, and colors are no longer visible to the human eye.
3) The Pressure at the deepest part of the Mariana Trench is over 8 tons per square inch.
4) The Mariana Trench was first pinpointed and surveyed in 1951 by the British Survey ship Challenger II., which gave its name for the trench’s deepest point, “Challenger Deep“.
5) The Exploration of the Challenger Deep by Swiss scientist Jacques Piccard and US Navy Lt. Donald Walsh set the record for deep-diving for having reached 10, 900 meters (35,810 feet).

(Source: http://frozenly.com/2010/02/deepest-part-of-the-ocean/)

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