Deepest Floor Of The Ocean

The deepest part of the ocean floor is the marianas trench near the philippines in the pacific ocean.

Deepest floor of the ocean.

The mariana trench or marianas trench is located in the western pacific ocean about 200 kilometres 124 mi east of the mariana islands. The most recent descent was made in 2012 by a manned deep submergence vehicle the deepsea challenger. The rest of the ocean floor varies in depth. It is almost seven miles deep or about 35 000 feet.

It is located in the south pacific ocean on the northern side of the kermadec tonga subduction zone. According to the national oceanic and atmospheric administration the trench is almost 5 times wider than it is deep. Oceanic trenches in the ocean are long but narrow topographic depressions on the sea floor the deepest parts of the ocean floor. The trench is 1 554 miles long and 44 miles wide or 120 times larger than the grand canyon.

The tonga trench is the second deepest site in the ocean floor at 35 702 feet below the level of the sea floor. It is the deepest oceanic trench on earth. Cousteau submerged his camera to the sea floor of the romanche trench in the atlantic ocean some 24 500 feet down providing the first glimpse of this previously unseen part of the ocean. 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. The pacific ocean has around 50 000km of convergent plate margins and most of the deepest point located around this place. Many ocean floor features are a result of the interactions that occur at the edges of these plates. It is crescent shaped and measures about 2 550 km 1 580 mi in length and 69 km 43 mi in width.

The shifting plates may collide converge move away diverge or slide past transform each other. The challenger deep in the mariana trench is the deepest known point in earth s oceans.