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The deepest point in the ocean lies in the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean. The Mariana Trench is located in the western part ... "The greatest known depth is located in the Mindanao Trench (West Pacific) where the British ship Cook (1962) found 11,516 meters in depth exceeding Mount Everest's height by 2,660 meters."
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Mariana Trench - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Mariana Trench (or Marianas Trench ) is the deepest known part of the world's oceans, and the deepest location on the surface of the Earth's crust. It is located in the western Pacific Ocean, ...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariana_Trench
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Re: How far down is the deepest ocean in the world and has man ever been? Date: Mon Oct 5 13:59:40 1998; Posted By: Jason Goodman, Graduate Student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Area of science: Environment & Ecology; ... its depth is 11.03 km (36,200 feet). In 1953, the bathyscaphe ("bathy" = deep,
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www.mit.edu/people/goodmanj/madsci/908302154.En.r.html
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Here is a profile of temperature with depth from the Challenger deep, which is the deepest place in the ocean- it's in the Marianas Trench in the Pacific Ocean, near the Phillipines.
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www.madsci.org/posts/archives/nov2000/975264112.Eg.r.ht...
www.madsci.org/posts/archives/nov2000/975264112.Eg.r.html
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Question: How many miles is the deepest ocean? ---Scott Answer: According to my World Almanac, the Pacific Ocean has the greatest average depth -- 12,925 feet, or almost 2 1/2 miles. The Pacific also has the largest known maximum depth, in the famous Mariana Trench;
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www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/gen99/gen99058.htm
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The echo sounder measures precisely how long it takes for the sound waves to be returned to the surface and determines the depth based on the rate of return. These soundings are plotted on a graph by a computer to make an "echo map" of the ocean bottom.
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www.extremescience.com/DeepestOcean.htm
www.extremescience.com/DeepestOcean.htm
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He knew how wave speeds depend on depth, so he calculated a 2 1/5 ... Before 1850, people guessed the ocean floor was smooth and featureless. Now maps display great mountains and canyons. The Greeks had been right all along. The deepest ocean trench isn't much farther below sea level than the highest mountain is above it.
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www.uh.edu/admin/engines/epi363.htm
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Britannica online encyclopedia article on Milwaukee Depth (deepest point, Atlantic Ocean), deepest point in the Atlantic Ocean, lying at a depth of 27,493 feet (8,380 m) about 100 miles (160 km) northwest of the island of Puerto Rico. ... deepest point in the Atlantic Ocean, lying at a depth of 27,493 feet (8,380 m) about...
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www.britannica.com/eb/article-9052766
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The Greatest Ocean Depth: ... Why is the ocean so deep here? ... World's Deepest Ocean Trench...
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geology.com/records/deepest-part-of-the-ocean.shtml
geology.com/records/deepest-part-of-the-ocean.shtml
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