2006-06-13 12:42:33 · 12 answers · asked by VALVALSTAR 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
The deepest point in the ocean is the Mariana Trench located in the Pacific Ocean near the Northern Mariana Islands. It has a maximum depth of (35,838 ft) It was fully surveyed in 1951 by the British naval vessel, "Challenger II" which gave its name to the deepest part of the trench, the "Challenger Deep".Much of the bottom of the world's oceans is unexplored and unmapped. A global image of many underwater features larger than 10 km was created in 1995 based on gravitational distortions of the nearby sea surface.
2006-06-13 12:51:51 · answer #1 · answered by 223 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, Beebe, Woods Hole institute, others have even gone into the trenches. Look up the National Geographic videos on the Titanic, Midway Island carriers, The Ballard explorations.
Is stepping off shore a few feet deep still the bottom of the ocean?
Look up the seafloor vents. Pretty interesting.
2006-06-13 12:50:52 · answer #2 · answered by metaraison 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Others have already documented the exploration of the Marianas Trench in the Pacific Ocean. So far as anyone has learned to date, that is the deepest "absolute bottom" of the ocean, and humanity has visited it.
Some humans have visited previously-impossible depths without going in a submarine. Henri Delauze, principal of the marine exploration and services company Comex in France, made either the deepest or second-seepest dive in such conditions, and that was in the 1960's (sorry, I haven't the details, he related this to me one day while we were aboard his ship during deep-ocean dives by his robotic machinery looking for shipwrecks).
Today it is not at all uncommon for equipment to work at 12,000 or 16,000 feet below the sea surface, laying cables or pipelines. While most of that work is done at lesser depths, there is no part of the ocean today inaccessible to man. All it takes is a deeper pocketbook than the ocean trenches, and tons of patience and extraordinary engineering talents.
2006-06-13 15:34:12 · answer #3 · answered by Der Lange 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
On January 23, 1960, Jacques Piccard and Navy Lieutenant Donald Walsh descended in the Trieste II to the deepest known point on Earth, the Mariana Trench. They dived to a depth of 10,915 meters. They set a world record which is yet to be broken.
The Mariana Trench is the deepest known point on Earth. It is one of many deepwater ocean trenches formed wherever plates collide. In the case of the Mariana's, it's the Pacific and Philippine plates. Near its southwestern extremity, about 210 miles southwest of the island of Guam, is the deepest point on earth. This point, also known as the Challenger Deep, is estimated to be 10,923 m (about 35,839 feet) deep.
So they missed the bottom by 8 meters. Probably due to the width of the trench being narrower than their bathyscaphe.
2006-06-13 12:56:21 · answer #4 · answered by Kevin R 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just look at the Titanic. Of course we can make it down there! Not without extremely advanced technology, but we have made it so people can go to the very bottom and take pictures of a ship that sank over 94 years ago! I think that is amazing, but to answer your question we can make it down there, but without a submarine and 9-inch thick glass it would be highly impossible.
2006-06-13 12:56:48 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. The bottom of the ocean is like the landscape of Colorado-it's not flat. So you can reach the plain part of it with more ease than inside the trenches.
2006-06-13 13:08:48 · answer #6 · answered by juggler 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is possible -- but very special craft would have to be constructed for it, as the pressure increases in lower levels of the ocean. I'm not sure how far research on these types of craft has gone... perhaps some scientists are too busy looking for ways to trash the surface first. :)
2006-06-13 12:46:21 · answer #7 · answered by Guardian 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no i do not think so because scientist have discoverd that there is just to much pressure on the human body to go down to the bottom of the ocean
2006-06-13 12:48:51 · answer #8 · answered by alexzandra 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely not! There is too much pressure. You know the bottom of the swimming pool feeling on your ears? Well, multiply it by 100,000.
2006-06-13 12:46:12 · answer #9 · answered by Bobby D 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No.
The pressure is too great to go down that far.
Modeern science has yet to invent something that would enable this.
The closest we've come is seeing the Titanic, but that was through a submarine.
2006-06-13 12:46:17 · answer #10 · answered by rachaelx3x3 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋