What would happen to a human at the bottom of the Mariana Trench?

The pressure from the water would push in on the person's body, causing any space that's filled with air to collapse. (The air would be compressed.) So, the lungs would collapse. At the same time, the pressure from the water would push water into the mouth, filling the lungs back up again with water instead of air.
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Could a human survive in the Mariana Trench?

You would never make it to the bottom of the ocean without any equipment, because you would run out of oxygen, and your body would be shut down by the pressure underwater. So if you want any chance of surviving this journey, you'll need some sort of capsule to bring you safely to the bottom.
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Can humans go to the bottom of the Mariana Trench?

The first and only time humans descended into the Challenger Deep was more than 50 years ago. In 1960, Jacques Piccard and Navy Lt. Don Walsh reached this goal in a U.S. Navy submersible, a bathyscaphe called the Trieste.
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Has anyone been to the bottom of the Mariana Trench and survived?

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. As a new wave of adventurers gear up to repeat the epic journey, Don Walsh tells the BBC about their remarkable deep-sea feat.
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Are there monsters in the Mariana Trench?

Despite its immense distance from everywhere else, life seems to be abundant in the Trench. Recent expeditions have found myriad creatures living out their lives at the bottom of the sea-floor. Xenophyophores, amphipods, and holothurians (not the names of alien species, I promise) all call the trench home.
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Can Godzilla live in Mariana Trench?

And if the terrible lizard is radiation-hardened, he can probably withstand the pressure at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, which is more than 8 tons per square inch, or the equivalent of 50 jumbo jets piled on top of a person, according to a description by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center website.
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What's inside Mariana Trench?

The Mariana Trench is the deepest point on Earth, void of light with the pressure of 48 jumbo jets. You'll still find crustaceans, translucent snailfish, and sea cucumbers in it. The most surprising thing in the deep ocean is plastic. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.
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What lives under the Mariana Trench?

The three most common organisms at the bottom of the Mariana Trench are xenophyophores, amphipods and small sea cucumbers (holothurians), Gallo said.
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At what depth will water crush you?

This means we'd have to dive to about 35.5 km depth before bone crushes. This is three times as deep as the deepest point in our ocean. The 40% of non-water non-gaseous minerals and tissues such as salts, proteins, fats and lipids are virtually impossible to compress similar to water.
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How deep has a human gone in the ocean?

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 deepest a human has been underground?

In terms of depth below the surface, the Kola Superdeep Borehole SG-3 retains the world record at 12,262 metres (40,230 ft) reached in 1989 and is still the deepest artificial point on Earth.
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How cold is it in the Mariana Trench?

At areas like the Mariana Trench (or the Marianas Trench; both spellings are commonly found) the water temperature ranges from 34-39 degrees F (1-4 degrees C).
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Is there oxygen in the Marianas Trench?

“In the parts of the sea where there is virtually no fallout of organic matter, the oxygen can penetrate 50 metres down into the seabed. At the bottom of the Mariana Trench, the oxygen 'only' penetrates one metre down, which suggests that there is a relatively high bacterial activity,” says Glud.
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How warm is the bottom of the Mariana Trench?

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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Is Godzilla real?

King Ghidorah, Godzilla is actually a mutated unique species of dinosaur called Godzillasaurus. Godzilla has appeared in 31 movies since 1954 — three America, the rest Japanese.
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Where does Godzilla live in the ocean?

Set in 2097, most of Earth's kaiju (monsters) live on an island out in the Pacific Ocean called Godzilla Island, which is monitored by G-Guard.
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Are megalodons still alive in 2021?

Megalodon is NOT alive today, it went extinct around 3.5 million years ago.
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Is it possible that megalodons are still alive?

But could megalodon still exist? '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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Can we bring back megalodon?

In fact, it's doubtful that they ever will. This is because the megalodon went extinct millions of years ago. And there is no way to bring it back since there's no viable DNA to clone them.
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Do sea monsters exist?

Mythic Kraken

Hundreds of years ago, European sailors told of a sea monster called the kraken that could toss ships into the air with its many long arms. Today we know sea monsters aren't real--but a living sea animal, the giant squid, has 10 arms and can grow longer than a school bus.
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Is there a dragon fish?

dragonfish, also called sea moth, any of about five species of small marine fishes comprising the family Pegasidae and the order Pegasiformes. Dragonfish are found in warm Indo-Pacific waters. They are small (to about 16 centimetres [6 1/2 inches] long), elongated fish encased in bony rings of armour.
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