• Question: How deap is the ocean

    Asked by Chickenman3000 to Arthur, David, Tora on 20 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Tora Smulders-Srinivasan

      Tora Smulders-Srinivasan answered on 20 Nov 2014:


      The average depth of the ocean is about 14,000 feet. The deepest part of the ocean is called the Challenger Deep and is located beneath the western Pacific Ocean in the southern end of the Mariana Trench, which runs several hundred kilometers southwest of the U.S. territorial island of Guam. Challenger Deep is approximately 36,200 feet deep. It is named after the HMS Challenger, whose crew first sounded the depths of the trench in 1875.

      I googled it! 🙂

      http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/oceandepth.html

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