What happens if you swim to the bottom of Mariana Trench?

What would happen if I took a swim at the very bottom of Mariana Trench? You can't go there without any outside protection. You would be crushed immediately even before reaching there. The pressure there is extremely high that is some 11000 psi.
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What would happen to a human at the bottom of the Mariana Trench?

Any air filled crevice of the human body would collapse in the blink of an eye under this pressure. Lungs filled with air would collapse and the bones would crush. Mariana Trench is the deepest location in earth's crust.
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Can life survive at the bottom of the Mariana Trench?

The Mariana Trench is deeper than Mount Everest is tall and anything living there has to survive the cold water and extremely high pressure. Some animals, including the deep-sea crustaceans Hirondellea gigas , do live there —and they have recently had a human visitor.
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Has anyone ever swam in the Mariana Trench?

To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. On 23 January 1960, two explorers, US navy lieutenant Don Walsh and Swiss engineer Jacques Piccard, became the first people to dive 11km (seven miles) to the bottom of the Mariana Trench.
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How cold is it in the Mariana Trench?

It's Hot and It's Cold

You might expect the waters of the Mariana Trench to be frigid since no sunlight can reach it. And you'd be right. The water there tends to range between 34 to 39 degrees Fahrenheit.
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How far has a human gone in the Mariana Trench?

Vescovo's trip to the Challenger Deep, at the southern end of the Pacific Ocean's Mariana Trench, back in May, was said to be the deepest manned sea dive ever recorded, at 10,927 meters (35,853 feet).
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What is the biggest creature in the Mariana Trench?

The Mariana Hadal Snailfish is the deepest fish species ever recovered from the Mariana Trench. Researchers caught this record-breaking fish 27,460 feet below sea level, and scientists theorize the maximum depth possible for fish is 27,900 feet.
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Is there a place deeper than Mariana Trench?

Challenger Deep is the deepest point in the world ocean. Located within the already-deep Mariana Trench in the western Pacific Ocean, the actual deepness of Challenger Deep strains the imagination. We'll take a look at some bizarre ways to consider this depth, but first we'll explore why Challenger Deep...is deep.
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What is the deepest sea creature found?

In the lead are Cuvier's beaked whales (Ziphius cavirostris) that can dive from the ocean's surface down to 2,992m (9,816ft) thanks to adaptations that help them conserve oxygen and survive extreme pressure . These elusive whales aren't competing for glory, but hunting for deep sea squid.
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Who was the last person to go to the bottom of the Mariana Trench?

52 years later, James Cameron became the first person to solo dive that point. Piccard, Walsh and Cameron remained the only people to reach the world's deepest seafloor until 2019, when regular dives in DSV Limiting Factor began.
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How much weight is on you at the bottom of the Mariana Trench?

The crushing water pressure on the floor of the trench is more than 8 tons per square inch (703 kilograms per square meter). This is more than 1,000 times the pressure felt at sea level, or the equivalent of having 50 jumbo jets piled on top of a person.
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What does deep water feel like?

Pressure increases with ocean depth.

You don't feel it because the fluids in your body are pushing outward with the same force. Dive down into the ocean even a few feet, though, and a noticeable change occurs. You can feel an increase of pressure on your eardrums.
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How long would it take a rock to hit bottom of Mariana Trench?

Pre-expedition estimates put the Challenger Deep descent at about 90 minutes. (Animation: Cameron's Mariana Trench dive compressed into one minute.)
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What has been found at the bottom of the Mariana Trench?

Most of the plastic—a whopping 89 percent—was the type of plastic that is used once and then thrown away, like a plastic water bottle or disposable utensil. While the Mariana Trench may seem like a dark, lifeless pit, it hosts more life than you might think.
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What happens to human body in deep-sea?

Putrefaction and scavenging creatures will dismember the corpse in a week or two and the bones will sink to the seabed. There they may be slowly buried by marine silt or broken down further over months or years, depending on the acidity of the water.
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Is it dark in the Mariana Trench?

Temperatures are just above freezing, and everything is drowning in darkness. For comparison, most ocean life lives above a depth of 660 feet. Nuclear submarines hover around 850 feet below the surface as they travel through the ocean waters. Whales aren't usually seen below about 8,200 feet.
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How much gold is there in the ocean?

One study found there is only about one gram of gold for every 100 million metric tons of ocean water in the Atlantic and north Pacific. There is also (undissolved) gold in/on the seafloor. The ocean, however, is deep, meaning that gold deposits are a mile or two underwater.
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What is the deepest darkest place on Earth?

Mariana Trench. Imagine the deepest, darkest place on Earth—an underwater trench plummeting to a depth of 35,800 feet, nearly seven miles below the ocean surface. The Mariana Trench is one of the least explored places on Earth.
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Is the Megalodon still alive in the Mariana Trench?

'No. It's definitely not alive in the deep oceans, despite what the Discovery Channel has said in the past,' notes Emma. 'If an animal as big as megalodon still lived in the oceans we would know about it.
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Is the Mariana Trench toxic?

Dead fish drifting into the Mariana and Kermadec trenches carry mercury pollution with them. At more than 10 kilometres deep, the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean might seem remote enough to be pristine. But explorers have discovered plastic waste there — and now they've found mercury pollution, as well.
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Does the bloop exist?

"The Bloop" is the given name of a mysterious underwater sound recorded in the 90s. Years later, NOAA scientists discovered that this sound emanated from an iceberg cracking and breaking away from an Antarctic glacier. Shown here: a NASA Landsat mosaic image of Antarctica.
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How deep can a human swim without gear?

For most swimmers, a depth of 20 feet (6.09 metres) is the most they will free dive. Experienced divers can safely dive to a depth of 40 feet (12.19 metres) when exploring underwater reefs. When free diving the body goes through several changes to help with acclimatisation.
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What is the sound under Mariana Trench?

The noise, notable for its extremely wide frequency range and 'metallic finale', likely represents the discovery of a new baleen whale call, according to the Oregon State University team that recorded and analysed it.
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What is the deepest dive ever done?

The deepest dive

The world's deepest dive on open circuit scuba stands at 332.35m (1,090ft). It was undertaken by Ahmed Gabr in Dahab in the Red Sea on 18/19 September 2014 after nearly a decade of preparation. The descent took only 15 minutes while the ascent lasted 13 hours 35 minutes.
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