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 How deep is the deepest part of the ocean?

 

 Pretty darn deep - so deep that if you took Mount Everest and dropped it in the water, you wouldn't see it anymore. The deepest part of the ocean is the Marianas Trench (located in the Pacific Ocean, just east of the Philippines, which is about 11,000 meters (almost seven miles!) below sea level.


Does anything live that far down in the ocean?

Plants can't live that far down because they need light for photosynthesis. As you can imagine, light doesn't penetrate THAT far. But something lives down there: shrimp-like crustaceans, marine worms, and sea cucumbers. Bacteria, which live pretty much everywhere, also live in the Marianas Trench.

How do they know how deep the water is?

Well, if we can make it to the moon, we can certainly make it to the bottom of the ocean. A U.S. Navy bathyscape reached the bottom of the Marianas Trench in 1960. In 1995, a Japanese probe made what is probably the most accurate measurement of its depth.

(c) Copyright 2002 by SyndicationWire.com


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