Whats in the deepest part of the ocean?

Located in the western Pacific Ocean, the Marina Trench
Marina Trench
The Mariana Trench or Marianas Trench is 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.
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is considered to be the deepest part of the Earth's surface. In fact, it is the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench that is known as the deepest point.
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What lives in the deepest part of ocean?

What Lives In The Deepest Part of the Ocean? 7 Incredible Mariana Trench Animals
  • Barreleye Fish.
  • Benthocodon.
  • Comb jellies.
  • Deep-sea dragonfish.
  • Deep-sea hatchetfish.
  • Dumbo Octopus.
  • Frilled Shark.
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What's at the deepest bottom of the ocean?

The deepest part of the ocean is called the Challenger Deep and is located beneath the western Pacific Ocean in the southern end of the Mariana Trench, which runs several hundred kilometers southwest of the U.S. territorial island of Guam.
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What is very deep in the ocean?

The hadalpelagic is the very deepest part of the ocean that includes the ocean trenches. It extends from 19,700 feet (6,000 meters) to the very bottom of the Mariana Trench at 36,070 feet (10,994 meters).
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Can we reach the bottom of the ocean?

2019: Victor Vescovo reached a deeper part of Challenger Deep at 35,853 feet, breaking the record for the deepest dive in DSV Limiting Factor. His dive was part of the Five Deeps Expedition to reach the bottom of every ocean on Earth.
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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 cold is the ocean floor?

Therefore, the deep ocean (below about 200 meters depth) is cold, with an average temperature of only 4°C (39°F). Cold water is also more dense, and as a result heavier, than warm water. Colder water sinks below the warm water at the surface, which contributes to the coldness of the deep ocean.
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What lives at the bottom of 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. "These are some of the deepest holothurians ever observed, and they were relatively abundant," Gallo said.
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Has anyone been to bottom of 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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Why can't we go to the bottom of the ocean?

“The intense pressures in the deep ocean make it an extremely difficult environment to explore.” Although you don't notice it, the pressure of the air pushing down on your body at sea level is about 15 pounds per square inch. If you went up into space, above the Earth's atmosphere, the pressure would decrease to zero.
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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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What does bottom of ocean look like?

The Abyssal Plains

The ocean contains amazing mountain ranges, volcanoes, incredibly deep trenches, and strange creatures. However, the majority of the ocean floor is far more boring. The abyssal plains cover the majority of the ocean. These vast, flat expanses cover over half of the Earth's surface.
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Is Megalodon in 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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What is the scariest ocean?

The Devil's Sea Is the Bermuda Triangle's Twin

The Devil's Sea is called the Bermuda Triangle of the Pacific, and it's not difficult to understand why: this area off the coast of Tokyo is also known for strange disappearances and shipwrecks, including the MV Derbyshire, the biggest ship ever lost at sea.
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What was found in Mariana Trench?

A recent study revealed that a plastic bag, like the kind given away at grocery stores, is now the deepest known piece of plastic trash, found at a depth of 10,975 meters (36,000 feet) inside the Mariana Trench.
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Can submarines go to the deepest part of the ocean?

A nuclear submarine can dive to a depth of about 300m. This one is larger than the research vessel Atlantis and has a crew of 134. The average depth of the Caribbean Sea is 2,200 meters, or about 1.3 miles. The average depth of the world's oceans is 3,790 meters, or 12,400 feet, or 2 13 miles.
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What was found in the Challenger Deep?

In April 2019, American undersea explorer Victor Vescovo set a new record for the deepest descent ever at the Challenger Deep - 35,853 feet (10,928 meters). On the bottom of the ocean, he found candy wrappers and plastic bags.
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How deep has a submarine gone in the ocean?

Trieste is a Swiss-designed, Italian-built deep-diving research bathyscaphe which reached a record depth of about 10,911 metres (35,797 ft) in the Challenger Deep of the Mariana Trench near Guam in the Pacific.
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What would happen if you swam in 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.
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Is there a giant creature in the ocean?

While the blue whale is the overall-largest creature of the sea, the lion's mane jellyfish goes to the top of the list for being the longest. These languid beauties have tentacles that reach an astonishing 120 feet in length. 3 It's hard to know why they are graced with such extraordinary appendages.
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How cold is 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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How cold is the moon?

The average temperature on the Moon (at the equator and mid latitudes) varies from -298 degrees Fahrenheit (-183 degrees Celsius), at night, to 224 degrees Fahrenheit (106 degrees Celsius) during the day.
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Can the ocean freeze?

Ocean water freezes just like freshwater, but at lower temperatures. Fresh water freezes at 32 degrees Fahrenheit but seawater freezes at about 28.4 degrees Fahrenheit , because of the salt in it. When seawater freezes, however, the ice contains very little salt because only the water part freezes.
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Why is the ocean blue?

The ocean is blue because water absorbs colors in the red part of the light spectrum. Like a filter, this leaves behind colors in the blue part of the light spectrum for us to see. The ocean may also take on green, red, or other hues as light bounces off of floating sediments and particles in the water.
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