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Location map Puerto Rico Trench—United States Geological Survey 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. The purple sea floor at the center of the view is the Puerto Rico Trench, the deepest part of the Atlantic ...
Location map Puerto Rico trench - USGS 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. The purple sea floor at the center of the view is the Puerto Rico trench, the deepest part of the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea.
Lying about 75 miles (121 km) north of Puerto Rico in the Atlantic Ocean at the boundary between the Caribbean and North American plates is the Puerto Rico Trench, the largest and deepest trench in the Atlantic. The trench is 1,090 miles (1,750 km) long and about 60 miles (97 km) wide.
Puerto Rico Trench: Atlantic Ocean Brownson Deep 8,380 m (27,490 ft) [42] South Sandwich Trench: Atlantic Ocean Meteor Deep 8,265 m (27,116 ft) [42] Peru–Chile Trench or Atacama Trench: Pacific Ocean Richards Deep 8,055 m (26,427 ft) [43] Japan Trench: Pacific Ocean 8,412 m (27,498 ft) [43] Cayman Trench: Atlantic Ocean Caribbean Deep
From there it continues into Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. Part of the Puerto Rico Trench, the deepest part of the Atlantic Ocean (roughly 8,400 metres or 27,600 feet), lies along this border. The Puerto Rico Trench is at a complex transition from the subduction boundary to the south and the transform boundary to the west.
Desecheo Island sits on the Desecheo ridge, a narrow east–west ridge that extends west from the northwest corner of Puerto Rico. The ridge forms the southern boundary of the 13,123 ft (4,000 m) deep Mona Canyon which extends toward the north into the Puerto Rico Trench. The east face of the rift has a sharp relief of 3 km and is controlled by ...
RINCÓN, Puerto Rico — At the end of a dirt road leading to a prime surfing spot in this vacation town on the northwest coast sits a giant, hemispheric bulb bulging out from between the palm trees.
In 1964, Archimède descended into "what was then thought to be the deepest part of the Puerto Rico Trench", [3] which the NY Times reported as 27,500 feet (8,400 m). [4] Archimède was christened on 27 July 1961, at the French Navy base of Toulon. It was designed to go beyond 30,000 feet (9,100 m), [5] and displaced 61 tons. [6]