Deepest Ocean Floors

Scientists are flocking to florida s gulf coast for a glimpse of a mysterious 425 feet deep blue hole on the ocean floor.

Deepest ocean floors.

The challenger deep in the mariana trench is the deepest known point in earth s oceans. The maximum known depth is 10 984 metres 36 037 ft 25 metres 82 ft 6 825 miles at the southern end of a. 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 crescent shaped and measures about 2 550 km 1 580 mi in length and 69 km 43 mi in width.

Many ocean floor features are a result of the interactions that occur at the edges of these plates. Geographical activities created deep trenches beneath the ocean that thousands of feet in. The mariana trench or marianas trench is located in the western pacific ocean about 200 kilometres 124 mi east of the mariana islands. The average depth of the ocean is about 12 100 feet the deepest part of the ocean is called the challenger deep and is located beneath the western pacific ocean in the southern end of the mariana trench which runs several hundred kilometers southwest of the u s.

It is the deepest oceanic trench on earth. The pacific ocean has around 50 000km of convergent plate margins and most of the deepest point located around this place. Territorial island of guam. The deepest part of our oceans the region from below 20 000 feet to the very bottom of the deepest sea trench is known as the hadal zone.

Deep ocean water is divided into layers or zones each with typical features of salinity pressure temperature and marine life according to their depth. Deepest point in the world s oceans. The most recent descent was made in 2012 by a manned deep submergence vehicle the deepsea challenger. Lying along the top of the abyssal plain is the abyssal zone whose lower boundary lies at about 6 000 m 20 000 ft.

The trench is 1 554 miles long and 44 miles wide or 120 times larger than the grand canyon. 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 oceans deepest area is the mariana trench also called the marianas trench which is in the western part of the pacific ocean. Cousteau submerged his camera to the sea floor of.

As plates converge one plate may move under the other causing earthquakes forming volcanoes or creating deep ocean trenches. The glowing mystery hole about 155 feet below the water s surface.