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The Mariana Trench Shown To Unsettling Scale

March 17, 2010 • Awesome

The Mariana trench is the deepest known part of the ocean at over 11,000 metres. The graphic below shows just how scarily deep that is! Amazingly, a manned descent was actually achieved in 1960, using the steampunk-sounding Bathyscaphe Trieste

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  1. John Bates on March 19, 2010 11:08 am

    I love visualisations like this.

  2. OtherJohn on March 30, 2010 5:48 am

    wow, I used to live in Guam which is not far from this. Impressive!

  3. John Bardsley on March 30, 2010 5:54 am

    Everest is 29 thousand feet, or 8.8km, so this trench is quite a bit deeper than the highest mountain. Could we see a contour map showing the shape of the ocean floor and adjacent land?

  4. Marco Cattaneo on March 30, 2010 1:15 pm

    Wow! It seems we know more about Mars than we actually know about our own oceans. The only 10% being mapped really surprises me. I agree with John Bates – the visualization is great, and put things in perspective. PS. The Piggynap banner is one of the best I’ve seen around on the WEB :-)

  5. Jon on March 30, 2010 6:57 pm

    Can we have the same scale for the center of the earth?

  6. Josiah Boone on March 30, 2010 7:04 pm

    Can you even imagine how much we don’t know at all? Really life is to big for us to see what at the top or better yet the bottom…..

  7. Hallmark Radiator Cabinets on March 30, 2010 7:53 pm

    That is absolutely fantastic, I cant image being that deep.

  8. trench_mouth on March 30, 2010 8:01 pm

    just imagine what exists down there, both frightening and exciting at the same time

  9. Michael on April 1, 2010 2:40 am

    If you look real close at the bottom you can see a bunch of lawyers feeding!

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  11. TekManiac on April 12, 2010 2:45 am

    Although a blue whale feeds at a depth of less than 330 feet, it can dive up to 1640 feet. One dive lasts for 10 to 20 minutes.

  12. Young Bat on May 28, 2010 2:50 pm

    Not deep enough to keep people from spoiling it, alas.

  13. meperson on June 30, 2010 11:17 pm

    Far to deep for people to spoil it, no manmade structure that we have at the moment will be able to stay down there for more than a few weeks before being completely crushed.

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