how far down have humans gone beneath the ocean?
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How Deep Under the Sea Have Humans Gone How Deep Under the Sea Have Humans Gone. Almost 7 miles below the surface of the Pacific Ocean lies the world’s deepest point, the Challenger Deep. Has anyone ever ventured there? The Challenger Deep, located in the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific near Guam, lies at a depth of 35,840 feet and could easily hold the 29,029-foot Mount Everest. The Deep was discovered in 1875, and people have been attempting to precisely measure its depth ever since.
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When Did Cavemen Live? Genesis does not give many details about the geography immediately after Babel, but it is not hard to fill in some of the gaps. At the height of the Ice Age, so much water was bound up in ice that the ocean level plummeted 330 feet (100 m) below today’s level.
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How deep can an ocean get? How deep can an ocean get? Real Deep ;) Actually, it can get to 35,838 feet. That's how deep Challenger Deep in the Marianas Trench off the Marianas Island in the Pacific Ocean gets. The U.S. Navy su … bmersible Trieste reached it in 1960. That's about a mile deeper than Mount Everest is high. And that's real deep.
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- Earth's ocean is very important to us; it covers almost three-quarters of our planet. If all the ice in glaciers and ice sheets melted, the sea level would rise by about 80 meters (262 ft), about the height of a 26-story building.90% of an iceberg is under water--ships beware!f sea level should rise by 3 meters (10 feet), many of the World's coastal cities, like Venice, London, New Orleans, and New York, would be under water. Tsunamis are caused by offshore earthquakes, and travel at about 800 kilometers (500 miles) per hour.
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Descending Into The Mariana Trench: James Cameron's Odyssey At nearly seven miles below the water's surface, the Mariana Trench is the deepest spot in Earth's oceans. And the site north of Guam is where director and explorer James Cameron recently fulfilled a longtime goal of reaching the bottom in a manned craft.
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The Seikan Tunnel The tunnel is 54 kilometres long, and descends to a depth of 240 metres below the surface of the sea. It took 17 years and ¥538,000,000,000 to build, and opened in 1998.t’s 135 metres below the surface. Perhaps the Seikan Tunnel doesn’t really belong in this section, as it's more a case of undersea than underground. It connects the Japanese mainland (Honshu) to the northern island of Hokkaido, and is the world's longest undersea tunnel.
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Hole Drilled to Bottom of Earth's Crust, Breakthrough to Mantle Looms It marks the division between Earth's brittle outer crust and the hotter, softer mantle. The depth of the Moho varies. This latest effort, which drilled 4,644 feet (1,416 meters) below the ocean seafloor, appears to have been 1,000 feet off to the side of where it needed to be to pierce the Moho, according to one reading of seismic data used to map the crust's varying thickness.
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- Key weather averages for New Orleans in June. 1  32. 32°C max day temperature. 2  9. 9 hours of sunshine per day. 3  11. 11 days with some rainfall. 4  23. 23°C min night temperature. 5  14. 14 hours of daylight per day. 6  VH. Very High heat & humidity. 7  142. 142 mm of monthly rainfall. 8  11. 11 (Extreme) UV index.
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What is the Deepest Depth a Submarine can Go? A small submarine, the bathyscape Trieste, made it to 10,916 meters (35,813 feet) below sea level in the deepest point in the ocean, the Challenger Deep in the Marianas Trench, a few hundred miles east of the Philippines.
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How deep can an ocean get? Real Deep ;) Actually, it can get to 35,838 feet. That's how deep Challenger Deep in the Marianas Trench off the Marianas Island in the Pacific Ocean gets. The U.S. Navy submersible Trieste reached it in 1960. That's about a mile deeper than Mount Everest is high. And that's real deep.
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James Cameron back on surface after deepest ocean dive Media caption James Cameron: It's a heck of a ride, you're just screaming down and screaming back up. Hollywood director James Cameron has returned to the surface after plunging nearly 11km (seven miles) down to the deepest place in the ocean, the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific. He made the solo descent in a submarine called Deepsea Challenger, taking over two hours to reach the bottom. He spent more than four hours exploring the ocean floor, before a speedy ascent back to the surface. His craft was kitted out with cameras so he could film the deep in 3D.
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Deep sea The deep sea or deep layer is the lowest layer in the ocean, existing below the thermocline and above the seabed, at a depth of 1000 fathoms (1800 m) or more. Little or no light penetrates this part of the ocean, and most of the organisms that live there rely for subsistence on falling organic matter produced in the photic zone.
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James Cameron Reaches Oceanâs Deepest Point, 7 Miles Below (MORE: The Bottom of the Ocean: What Cameron Says He Saw on His Dive) The Titanic director’s solo journey to the ocean’s deepest point took nearly three hours. He departed at 5:15 a.m. Monday local time from a starting point 200 miles (320 km) southwest of the Pacific island of Guam.
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Land Below Sea Level Lake Baikal in Russia is at an elevation of 447 meters, but with a maximum depth of 1637 meters, its bottom lies at -1190 meters. The Bentley Subglacial Trench in Antarctica reaches 2555 meters below sea level. It is the lowest point on Earth that is not covered by ocean, although it is covered by ice.
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Land Below Sea Level The lowest exposed land on Earth is at the Dead Sea shore, at -413 meters. The deepest lake bottom in a below-sea-level depression also belongs to the Dead Sea at -750 meters. Lake Baikal in Russia is at an elevation of 447 meters, but with a maximum depth of 1637 meters, its bottom lies at -1190 meters. The Bentley Subglacial Trench in Antarctica reaches 2555 meters below sea level. It is the lowest point on Earth that is not covered by ocean, although it is covered by ice. The trench is huge, roughly the size of Mexico. The deepest point on the ocean floors is -10,916 meters in the Mariana Trench.
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The Deep Sea Deep below the ocean’s surface is a mysterious world that takes up 95% of Earth’s living space. It could hide 20 Washington Monuments stacked on top of each other. But the deep sea remains largely unexplored. Dive down 650 feet (one monument or 200 meters), and you notice that light starts fading rapidly. Dive deeper: the temperature drops and pressure rises.
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- The greatest ocean depth measured is in the Challenger Deep of the Mariana Trench, at a depth of 11,034 m (36,201 ft) below sea level. Oceanic lithosphere moves into trenches at a global rate of about 3 km2/yr.
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Oceanography Name and locate the deepest ocean trench and describe its exploration by humans. Mariana Trench (Pacific Ocean) - deepest part of ocean (36,161 ft. below sea level) Visited by humans in 1960 in a deep-diving bathysphere. No mountain on Earth is taller than Mariana Trench is deep.
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- Absolutely fascinating. Thanks.Curious, I checked Grand Banks off Newfoundland, and in some places -200 feet, yet suddenly the plunge even to 17,000 feet. You can see it on Google maps, but have no sense of depth.Even more peculiar are places on LAND which are over 1,000 feet BELOW sea level.
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- Rise in sea level. There is climatic evidence of a massive rise in sea level that began 18,000 years ago, and stopped about 4,000 years ago. It is possible that this rise may have drowned artifacts of human migration to Tuvalu and other Pacific Islands [4] .
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Hidden âOceanâ Discovered Deep Underground Near Earthâs Core Hidden 'Ocean' Discovered Deep Underground Near Earth's Core. We may have another ocean to add to the world map -- only this one is hidden hundreds of miles beneath our planet's surface. A new study suggests that a hidden ocean is nestled in the Earth's mantle some 400 miles beneath North America. The hidden reservoir, apparently locked in a blue crystalline mineral called ringwoodite, may hold three times as much water that exists in all the world's surface oceans.
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What is the deepest place on Earth? The Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench is the deepest known point in Earth's oceans. In 2010 the United States Center for Coastal & Ocean Mapping measured the depth of the Challenger Deep at 10,994 meters (36,070 feet) below sea level with an estimated vertical accuracy of ± 40 meters.
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62 Miles Beneath the Sea! Deepest Ocean in the Solar System Discovered on Jupiter's Europa 62 Miles Beneath the Sea! Deepest Ocean in the Solar System Discovered on Jupiter's Europa. October 28, 2010. The deepest ocean on Earth is the Pacific Ocean's Marianas Trench, which reaches a depth of 6.8 miles awesomely trumped by the depth of the ocean on the Jupiter's moon, Europa, which some measurements put at 62 miles. That's deep!
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The Mariana Trench - Oceanography The deepest point in each of the earth's oceans are as follows; the Arctic Ocean's Eurasian Basin at 5,450 meters (17,881 feet) deep, the Indian Ocean's Java Trench at 7,725 meters (25,344 feet) deep, the Atlantic Ocean's Puerto Rico Trench at 8,648 meters (28,374 feet) deep and the Pacific Ocean's Mariana Trench at 11,033 meters (36,201 feet) deep.
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How deep can an ocean get? Real Deep ;)  Actually, it can get to 35,838 feet. That's how deep Challenger Deep in the Marianas Trench off the Marianas Island in the Pacific Ocean gets. The U.S. Navy su…bmersible Trieste reached it in 1960. That's about a mile deeper than Mount Everest is high.
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Wreck of the Titanic found The Argo traveled just above the ocean floor, sending photographs up to the research vessel Knorr. In the early morning of September 1, Argo was investigating debris on the ocean floor when it suddenly passed over one of the Titanic ‘s massive boilers, lying at a depth of about 13,000 feet.