James Cameron Island: What Is The Mariana Trench?

The deepest depths of the ocean are unfathomable, no one knows what creatures lurk down there.

An entire new world, different from our own exists beneath the surface of our oceans. This life is full of color, shapes, sizes, wonder, and even darkness. Much of this life has yet to be explored but we still know that beneath the waves exist the most beautiful creatures and the most bizarre. Magical areas such as the coral reef and mysterious areas such as the depths of the ocean are homes to over 700,000 species that live in the ocean. This includes the eighty percent of the ocean that has yet to be explored. Even though there may be separate oceans on this planet, they are still interconnected by a body of salt water. No area of the ocean is the same, which brings us to the wonderful fact that so many different species are able to flourish

The world is home to many living things, the majority of life on earth though is living in the ocean with a percent of 94%. Since the beginning of the 1800s, man has been mapping the great oceans and what’s in them, but no more than 90 years ago have we started to look deeper. The ocean hasn't been completely explored, but with the advances in ocean exploration technology, scuba diving’s, and with those finds of strange creatures and treasures along the way.

knows what is lying in the deepest part in the ocean, and how could you not wonder?

Exploring the world’s oceans can have immediate benefits for humanity. Philippe Cousteau in his commentary “Why Exploring the Ocean is Mankind’s next Giant Leap” points out that the ocean can be a source of medical treatments as well as energy. He mentions an early treatment for HIV that came from a reef sponge, and the generation of wind energy. It is not just likely that there are more of these same important discoveries just waiting; it is nearly certain. “Living in the Dark,” by Cheryl Bardoe outlines the discovery of new ecosystems

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have Previously watched many ocean documentaries. One I found particularly interesting was David Attenburgs bio luminescent documentary, (I'll try to provide a link to it) This one, is also by him and I'm seeing some repeated scenes. In our course material it wasn't mentioned much, as far as the textbook goes. The creatures of the deep have large eyes and strong large jaws. I was surprised to hear how large the hairy angler was, I had always assumed angler fish where small, about the size of a prawn. I was surprised at there being walking sea urchins, they look very strange. The mushroom coral looks to be a coral that could be used to repopulate the planet in case the coral there went extinct. I find it pretty amazing that there are such large

Hadalpelagic Zone - Beyond the abyssopelagic zone lies the forbidding hadalpelagic zone. This layer extends from 6,000 meters (19,686 feet) to the bottom of the deepest parts of the ocean. These areas are mostly found in deep water trenches and canyons. The deepest point in the ocean is located in the Mariana Trench off the coast of Japan at 35,797 feet (10,911 meters). The temperature of the water is just above freezing, and the pressure is an incredible eight tons per square inch. That is approximately

And the final reason is that they are extremely maneuverable. Critics, with inaccurate information, say they aren’t. According to livescience.com, Andrew Bowen, director of the National Deep Submergence Facility at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in Massachusetts. According to the writers at livescience.com, profiling buoys can travel down to 330 feet (1,000 m) . According to the experts at livescience.com, James Cameron descended to the deepest part of the Mariana Trench, at a cavernous depth of 6.8 miles (10.9 km)

Deep ocean trenches are environments that have historically been shrouded in mystery, their inaccessibility rendering such limited explorations as net dragging and dredging for samples (Lee, 2012). While potential for chemosynthesis had been proposed as long ago as 1890, it was nearly a century later before such systems were demonstrated to be active on the ocean floor (German, 2011). Further investigation has shown that ecosystems are surviving and thriving along the ocean floor within these trenches. Studies have shown that deep ocean trenches contain ecosystems that are biologically and geologically active, producing a high diversity of organisms that must withstand a variety of environmental changes (Anderson et al., 2014). Recent explorations have confirmed new forms of life in deep ocean trenches. Life discovered in such an extreme environment is call for investigation.

According to the website of US Navy museum, in August 1953, Piccard finished development of the Bathyscaph Trieste, and it was placed in the sea for the first time. After that in 1960, the Bathyscaphe Trieste reached the deepest known depth in the ocean, 35,800 feet in the Challenger Deep. People may have trouble imagining the depth of the Challenger Deep reached. If the highest mountain, Mount Everest (about 29,000 feet), was submerged to the depth explored by the Challenger Deep, its peak would be more than a mile beneath the surface. (The Official U.S. Navy Museums). As time passed, the technology of submergence surprisingly developed, and now most of the submergence is conducted with unman probes.@@

the deepest marine trenches in the world (Rosenburg no. 6). With the interaction of the strong currents over the many reefs the topography is in a state of constant flux and development of new navigational hazards is swift (Rosenburg no. 6).

Have you ever wondered what is at the very bottom of the ocean? Or if any sea life could withstand a pressure so intense? In fact, there just might be life in depths of the deep sea.

Some of the most significant events that took place during the 1st and 2nd century AD, was pentecost and St Paul's conversion. Pentecost was 50 days after the Passover. Pentecost occurred when the 12 Apostles gathered in a house, when they saw a violent wind come from heaven. It filled the area, and they saw tongues that looked like fire that separated and was above each of them. This was the first time the Apostles were filled with the Holy Spirit, which allowed them to speak different tongues. One of the Apostles filled with the Spirit preached to everyone that they should be baptised and they too would be filled with the Holy Spirit. 3000 were baptised, which increased the growth of the Catholic Church as it moved many to believe and become

For many years humans have struggled to discover the deepest parts of the ocean and have also struggled with discovering space. We could not go really deep into the ocean, because humans can not withstand the pressure that the ocean produces. But now there is a robot that can reach the ocean floor called “The Benthic Rover”. With that new robot, scientist will be able to record how changes on the surface of the ocean will impact the marine animals below. “What is special about the rover is that we will be able to stay in the deep parts of the ocean for a really long time collecting seasonal changes data” (Engineer Alana Sherman). With Benthic Rover,