Deepest Places On The Ocean Floor

It is the deepest oceanic trench on earth.

Deepest places on the ocean floor.

Subscribe for a new video every week. This article takes a look at some of the deepest oceanic trenches in the world. 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.

After scaling the mid ocean ridge and traversing hundreds to thousands of miles of abyssal plains you might encounter an ocean trench. Oceanic trenches in the ocean are long but narrow topographic depressions on the sea floor the deepest parts of the ocean floor. It s the deepest trench in the southern hemisphere and is the locale of the fastest plate tectonic speed that s been measured. 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 second deepest place on earth is the tonga trench located in the south west pacific ocean. This trench s deepest point is called the galathea depth and is 34 587 ft deep. Generally oceanic trenches reach between 1 9 and 2 5 miles below the nearby ocean floor. It is crescent shaped and measures about 2 550 km 1 580 mi in length and 69 km 43 mi in width.

The challenger deep is the deepest spot in the ocean floor. To a point in the pacific ocean s mariana trench that is the deepest place on earth. Finally you would ascend tens of thousands of feet back up the continental slope and across the continental shelf. The mariana trench for example is the deepest place in the ocean at 36 201 feet.

Http goo gl lywszy the mariana trench is loca. Measuring the greatest ocean depth. Darker blues represent deeper spots. Trash found littering ocean floor in deepest ever sub dive.

The maximum known depth is 10 984 metres 36 037 ft 25 metres 82 ft 6 825 miles at the southern end of a. His dive went.