Puerto Rico Trench is 27,585 FT, which is deep enough to hold 22 Empire State Buildings stacked on top of each other! 🌊 | Discovery Channel UK

Where is the deepest point of the ocean? It’s in the Mariana Trench in the Pacific. The Mariana Trench is a deep trench located where two tectonic plates meet, and its deepest point is called Challenger Deep. The bottom of Challenger Deep is over ten thousand meters below sea level. That’s nearly seven miles deep - enough to fit Mount Everest with over a mile to spare. Challenger Deep was first discovered in 1875, but it took nearly a hundred years for it to be explored underwater - at that dept

4.2K views · 124 reactions | How deep does the ocean go? Did you know that humans have explored ONLY 5-10% of Earth's oceans? With so much to explore, the future of ocean exploration is more exciting than ever! Tech Insider | World Ocean Day | Facebook