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But the size of the shelf and how quickly it descends toward the deepest parts of the ocean, known as the abyssal plain, varies from place to place. Early oceanographers thought the ocean bottom ...

The floor of the Calypso Deep − a 5,112-meter-deep trench in the Ionian Sea − holds one of the highest concentrations of ...

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.

and the Mariana Trench—the deepest ocean trench on Earth. Of the more than 7,000 microbial species researchers documented in the samples, over 89% were previously unknown. Their study ...

It's a new record: American businessman and explorer Victor Vescovo just became the first person to reach the deepest part of the Atlantic Ocean. On Wednesday, Vescovo traveled to the bottom of ...

Researchers with the Center for Transformational Play at Carnegie Mellon University have created a virtual reality experience called “Echo of the Abyss” - this VR technology takes players on an ocean ...

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In 1977 scientists discovered that at the deepest parts of the ocean, which people had long ... A dusting of white lay around the vents, and in some places, had accumulated so high as to look ...

Accessing the deepest sea basins is a huge ... Unlike other popular places, such as beaches or the coastline, "the ocean floor is still largely unknown to society as a whole, which makes it ...

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?