The ocean is a mysterious place. As beautiful as it may seem, it is also a very dangerous place that has already taken thousands of human lives. For example, Tsunami disasters and places like Bermuda Triangle has left us with a lot of bad memories and unexplained phenomenon.
This doesn’t mean the ocean is just full of danger and mystery, there are many amazing places too. Like the deepest point of the ocean, known as Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench near Mariana Islands in the north-western Pacific Ocean. Which has a depth of 10,924 meters (35,840 feet). I’m unsure about the exact amount of the depth of Challenger Deep because it has been stated differently in several sources. I just know one thing for sure that it is “the deepest point in Earth’s oceans”.
As Geology.com explains, “The Mariana Trench is located at a convergent plate boundary. Here two converging lithospheric plates collide with one another. At this collision point, one of the plates descends into the mantle.” At the point where these two plates meet creates an ocean trench. Which is something like this diagram shows.
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Challenger Deep was named after the Royal Navy ship HMS Challenger, which was the first to discover it. On 23 January 1960, two men named Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh went down the Challenger Deep in ‘Bathyscaphe‘, a submersible vessel, becoming the first ever to reach the bottom of Challenger Deep. Just recently, the popular film director James Cameron also went down there for an expedition.
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Roshan Jerad Perera
