Victor Vescovo descended nearly 11km (seven miles) to the deepest place in the ocean - the Pacific Ocean's Mariana Trench. He spent four hours exploring the bottom of the trench in his submersible ...

Yet, found in the western Pacific Ocean, in the ocean territory of the Federated States of Micronesia, lies the deepest point of the seabed - that we know of so far. It is found within the ...

This is only the second manned expedition to the ocean's deepest depths - the first took place in 1960. The earlier descent was made by US Navy Lt Don Walsh and Swiss oceanographer Jacques Piccard.

China has developed the world's first system to reach the deepest point in the ocean to lay cables needed for underwater exploration. Dalian Maritime University, Nantong Liwei Machinery Company ...

Mr. Victor Vescovo, a retired naval officer, made the unsettling discovery as he descended nearly 10,928m to a point in the Pacific Ocean's Mariana Trench that is the deepest place on Earth ...

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Ocean depth is divided into zones: littoral, bathyal, abyssal and hadal. The deepest part of the ocean, the hadal zone, is anywhere deeper than six kilometres. What is the average depth of the ocean?