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The Caribbean Sea [1] ... The Caribbean's depth in its wider basins and deep-water temperatures are similar to those of the Atlantic.
The relatively narrow trough trends east-northeast to west-southwest and has a maximum depth of 7,686 metres (25,217 ft). Within the trough is a slowly spreading north–south ridge which may be the result of an offset or gap of approximately 420 kilometres (260 mi) along the main fault trace.
The purple sea floor at the center of the view is the Puerto Rico Trench, the deepest part of the Atlantic Ocean. The Puerto Rico Trench is located on the boundary between the North Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean Sea, parallel to and north of Puerto Rico, where the oceanic trench reaches the deepest points in the Atlantic Ocean.
The greatest ocean depth measured is in the Challenger Deep of the Mariana Trench, at a depth of 10,994 m (36,070 ft) below sea level. ... Caribbean Deep 7,686 m ...
Caribbean Sea (Atlantic Ocean) Oceanic trenches. Location of the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench. ... at a depth of 10,911 m (35,798 ft) below sea level.
Stewart and Jamieson also reported a maximum depth of 8,408 m (27,585 ft; 4,598 fathoms) [12] in 2019 and 8,378 m (27,487 ft; 4,581 fathoms) [13] in 2021. Perspective view of the sea floor of the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. The Lesser Antilles are on the lower left side of the view and Florida is on the upper right.
It has a maximum depth near the Cuban coast of 2,779 metres (9,117 ft). [2] Water flows through the Caribbean Sea from east to west. This flow consists of 5 Sv of water from the North Equatorial Current flowing through the Windward Passage and 12 Sv of water from the South Equatorial Current which flows along the coast of Brazil. The total flow ...
The Gulf's open sea experiences the Caribbean Current and a quasi-permanent cyclonic eddy generated in the southwest corner of the Cayman Tranch. [ 44 ] [ 45 ] The latter is centred at about 19°N 86°W, generating a sea surface height anomaly of negative 7.9 inches (0.2 m), with peripheral current velocities of 7.9 to 15.8 inches per second (0 ...