Take a deep dive into the ocean’s secrets. ExtremeTech reveals its hidden layers and life forms. Discover the depths of our planet today.

Take a deep dive into the ocean’s secrets. ExtremeTech reveals its hidden layers and life forms. Discover the depths of our planet today.

The ocean basins are so vast and deep that they hold about 97 percent of the Earth's water. Sea water that's trapped in ...

The HMS Challenger sampled one of these zones at the southern end of the Mariana Trench, which might be the deepest point in the ocean. Known as the Challenger Deep, it is 35,768 to 36,037 feet ...

In September 1972, a research vessel called the USNS Hayes discovered the deepest part of the Arctic Ocean and named it after ...

The deepest point of the ocean – the Mariana Trench – is 11,034 metres deep. It’s located in the western part of the Pacific Ocean and is a 1,580-mile-long stretch (2,542 kilometres) of ...

How Deep Is the Deepest Part of the Ocean? About 125 miles east of the Mariana Islands—a U.S. territory north of Guam—lies the deepest place known to man.

How deep is the ocean? Explorers started making navigation charts showing how wide the ocean was more than 500 years ago. But it’s much harder to calculate how deep it is.

While exploring the ocean in a deep-sea submersible, scientists say they discovered a flourishing ecosystem capable of ...

And the Arctic Ocean covers 16 square kilometers. Another measure of oceans is how deep they are. The deepest part of the oceans is the Mariana Trench. It runs south of Japan and just east of Guam.