Deepest Point Of Ocean Floor

An american explorer has descended nearly 11km seven miles to the deepest place in the ocean the mariana trench in the pacific.

Deepest point of ocean floor.

The challenger deep in the mariana trench is the deepest known point in earth s oceans. This area is considered an active submergence zone which means the pacific plate is continuing to slide beneath both the tonga and. The floor of the puerto rico trench constitutes the deepest point in the atlantic ocean. The mariana trench or marianas trench is located in the western pacific ocean about 200 kilometres 124 mi east of the mariana islands.

Deepest point in the world s oceans. It is crescent shaped and measures about 2 550 km 1 580 mi in length and 69 km 43 mi in width. Media outlets overwhelmingly referred to the area as the brownson deep while the name milwaukee deep was used by others. During the five deeps expedition explorer victor vescovo achieved the first manned descent to this location.

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. It is located in the south pacific ocean on the northern side of the kermadec tonga subduction zone. The tonga trench is the second deepest site in the ocean floor at 35 702 feet below the level of the sea floor. Deepest points located in the different part of the oceans on earth the deepest are explored and still exploring by the explorer there might be unknown or unexplored deepest point exist on earth than mariana trench the deepest point on earth.

The trench is 1 554 miles long and 44 miles wide or 120 times larger than the grand canyon. It is the deepest oceanic trench on earth. The oceans deepest area is the mariana trench also called the marianas trench which is in the western part of the pacific ocean. Continental shelf 300 feet continental slope 300 10 000 feet abyssal plain 10 000 feet abyssal hill 3 000 feet up from the abyssal plain seamount 6 000 feet.

The maximum known depth is 10 984 metres 36 037 ft 25 metres 82 ft 6 825 miles at the southern end of a. This graphic shows several ocean floor features on a scale from 0 35 000 feet below sea level. Oceanic trenches in the ocean are long but narrow topographic depressions on the sea floor the. Victor vescovo spent four.

23 1960 walsh and piccard made history when they made the five hour 6 78 mile odyssey to the world s deepest known point.