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The Mariana Trench is an oceanic trench located in the western Pacific Ocean, about 200 kilometres (124 mi) east of the Mariana Islands; it is the deepest oceanic trench on Earth. It is crescent-shaped and measures about 2,550 km (1,580 mi) in length and 69 km (43 mi) in width.
Two readers thought they recognized the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean, "the deepest part of the world." Another concluded it was Lake Erie. Another concluded it was Lake Erie. They were wrong.
Sonar mapping of the Challenger Deep by the DSSV Pressure Drop employing a Kongsberg SIMRAD EM124 multibeam echosounder system (26 April – 4 May 2019). The Challenger Deep is a relatively small slot-shaped depression in the bottom of a considerably larger crescent-shaped oceanic trench, which itself is an unusually deep feature in the ocean floor.
Location of the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific Ocean GEBCO 2019 bathymetry of the Challenger Deep and Sirena Deep. (a) Mariana Trench multibeam bathymetry data gridded at 75 m acquired on‐board the DSSV Pressure Drop overtop the GEBCO 2019 source grid (as shown in Figure 1) and the complete GEBCO 2019 grid with hillshade.
The ocean is absorbing approximately 90 per cent of the heat trapped by greenhouse gases
The Mariana Trench is the deepest point on Earth, void of light with the pressure of 48 jumbo jets. Yet life finds a way to survive. Very weird life.
The bathyscaphe Trieste before her record dive to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, 23 January 1960 (from Pacific Ocean) Image 19 Tarawa Atoll in Kiribati (from Pacific Ocean ) Image 20 Model of a Fijian drua , an example of an Austronesian vessel with a double-canoe ( catamaran ) hull and a crab claw sail (from Pacific Ocean )