Challenger Deep
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| Elevation | 10971 |
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| Did you know | The HMS Challenger expedition found radiolaria in the two dredged samples taken when the Challenger Deep was first discovered. |
| Awards | National Book Award for Young People's Literature |
| Golden Kite Award for Fiction | |
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| ID | 1079976 |
About Challenger Deep
The Challenger Deep is the deepest known point in the Earth's seabed hydrosphere, with a depth of 10,898 to 10,928 m by direct measurement from submersibles and slightly more by sonar bathymetry. It is located in the Pacific Ocean, at the southern end of the Mariana Trench near the Mariana Islands group.
The Mariana trench-Don Walsh's son repeated historical ocean dive
...The DSV-Limiting factor is the production of a series of dives in the Challenger Deep It used to be that more people went to the surface of the moon than dived to the deepest point of the oceans...
Kathy Sullivan: the woman who made history, in sea and space
... The Challenger Deep is the deepest known part of the earth s sea floor...
Victor Vescovo: adventurer deepest ocean, reaching locations
... The American oceanographer Don Walsh made history in 1960 when he joined Jacques Piccard in the implementation of the first manned dive to the deepest point of the earth - the Challenger Deep, a part of the Pacific s Mariana Trench...
