What Is The Deepest Part Of The Ocean?
Also the deepest location on Earth, the Mariana Trench is the deepest part of the ocean. With a maximum depth of thirty-five thousand seven hundred and ninety-eight feet below sea level, if Mount Everest were placed in the Mariana Trench, it would disappear. The Mariana Trench is located on the floor of the Pacific Ocean just east of the Mariana Islands and not far from Japan and Guam. The deepest part of the trench is known as the Challenger Deep and has pressures reaching over eight tons per square inch. On January 23, 1960 the ‘Trieste’ became the first sea vessel to travel to the depths of the Mariana Trench. Designed by a Swiss scientist, Auguste Piccard, the ‘Trieste’ could carry just two people, had walls five inches thick, weighed thirteen long tons in air, eight long tons in water and could withstand a pressure of nine tones per square inch.
