| Mariana Trench Deepest Spot On Earth |
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The Mariana Trench is the deepest spot on earth! It's located in the Western North Pacific Ocean, close to Japan and the Philippines. The Mariana trench deepest spot is 10.991 meters deep, it's called "Challenger Deep" ( 11°19′N, 142°15′E) named after the exploration vessel of the Royal Navy in 1951. On these depths life is extremely rare, but fishes like the Angler Fish and the Viperfish can survive on these depths. The bottom of the Mariana Trench appears to be light and clear and it has a pressure of almost 1,095 times the normal sea pressure.
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Book Of The Day
"In the first century A.D., Pliny the Elder-in a bout of oceanic hubris-pronounced that there were precisely 176 species of marine fauna and that, ''by Hercules, in the ocean . . . nothing exists which is unknown for us.'' Would that we could summon Pliny from his celestial Hall of Shame and thwack him over the head with Claire Nouvian''s The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss.