🌑 Deepest Place in the Ocean: The Mariana Trench
3rd Grade 🏆 World Records
The Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean is the deepest place on Earth — about 36,000 feet deep at a spot called Challenger Deep.
Deeper than Everest is tall
If you dropped Mount Everest into the trench, its peak would still be more than a mile underwater.
Visitors
In 1960, Jacques Piccard and US Navy officer Don Walsh dove to the bottom in a vessel called the Trieste. Filmmaker James Cameron dove there alone in 2012.
Quick quiz
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