Mariana Trench

The Challenger Deep

Prepared by Ann Liashenko and

Anya Seryodkina
KP-03
Plan
1.Location
2.Depth measurement
3.First descent
4.James Cameron
5.Inhabitants
6.At the bottom of the hollow
 Challenger Deep
While thousands of climbers
have successfully scaled Mount
Everest, the highest point on
Earth, only two people have
descended to the planet’s deepest
point, the Challenger Deep in the
Pacific Ocean’s Mariana Trench
 Location
Located in the western Pacific east of the Philippines and an average of approximately 124 miles
east of the Mariana Islands
If Mount Everest were
dropped into the Mariana
Trench, its peak would
still be more than a mile
(1.6 kilometers)
underwater.
 Depth measurement

The depths of the

Mariana Trench were
first plumbed in 1875 by
the British ship H.M.S.
Challenger as part of the
first global
oceanographic cruise

HMS Challenger (1826)
First descent

Trieste (bathyscaphe)
01/23/1960 Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh at the Trieste Bathyscaphe
 James Cameron sinks to the bottom
of the Mariana Trench

On 26 March 2012, James Cameron made a record-breaking solo dive to the earth’s deepest point, piloting the DEEPSEA
CHALLENGER 11 kilometers to the bottom of the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench
 Inhabitants of the underwater
world

Giant Toxic Amoebae:

These are single-celled creatures with a diameter
of 10 centimetres, covered with a special film
that is very pressure resistant and doesn’t break
down.
 Molluscs: These have been found with a very unusual shell composition that doesn’t
collapse under such high pressure. Before that, it was believed that mollusks in shells, in a
hard shell, could not exist there due to high pressure.
Strange octopuses:

They have no limbs, their

whole body resembles a
huge skirt. They have such
a structure due to the fact
that in such conditions it is
necessary to move and
resist high pressure. That is
why the octopus has such a
peculiar shape.
At the bottom of the hollow
 ”Bridges”
At the end of two thousand and eleven, four stone bridges were discovered in the
Mariana Trench, which stretched from one end to the other for seventy kilometers.
 Bottom surface
If we had the opportunity to sink to the very bottom of the Mariana Trench, we would
feel that it is covered with a layer of viscous mucus. Sand, as we know it, does not
exist there.
 REFERENCES
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariana_Trench
2. https://www.rolex.org/arts/cinema/james-cameron?ef_id=EAIaIQobC
hMI6aTkj-LV7QIVQht7Ch27VgMvEAAYASAAEgLOJvD_BwE:G:s
&s_kwcid=AL!141!3!434967918460!b!!g!!%2Bjames%20%2Bcame
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3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trieste_(bathyscaphe)
4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Challenger_(1826)
 Thank you
for your attention!