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D S asked in Education & ReferenceTrivia · 1 decade ago

Anyone want to do some Trivia!?

10 pts to the first correct answer! It has two parts, must answer both parts to get the points.

The deepest point of all the ocean floors is named what?

In what year was it first discovered?

Update:

So far the place is correct, but no one has the exact name of the deepest point or the correct year.

Update 2:

Okay, one more time....some of you have the correct name for the point, but no one has the year right. I'll give you a hint.....you can find the answer in the "encyclopedia".

Update 3:

One more hint....those of you who are coming up with 1990, you found the date in which a probe was made...I want the VERY FIRST DISCOVERY....not when they researched it, surveyed it, or took another look at it, but when the very first person found it.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    The Mariana Trench, in the Pacific Ocean. I'm not sure when it was discovered.

  • 1 decade ago

    Marianas Trench.

    1951

  • 1 decade ago

    Marianas Trench, located in the Pacific Ocean

    1990

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    the Challengar deep of the Marianas Trench located in the Pacific Ocean

    Beneath the Pacific Ocean, 210 miles southwest of Guam, lies the Marianas Trench: a gouge in the ocean floor 1800 meters deeper than Mt. Everest is tall. In 1960, explorers Jacques Piccard, the uncle of Betrand Piccard, and Don Walsh took the bathyscaphe, "Trieste," to the very floor of the Marianas Trench, where they spent 20 minutes looking around. They reported seeing, fully seven miles deep, a flounder-like creature!

    So 1960!!!

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  • 1 decade ago

    Challenger Deep in the Marianas Trench

    The Marianas Trench was first surveyed in 1951 by a Royal Navy ship called Challenger - hence Challenger Deep

    However on 23 January 1960, Challenger Deep was first surveyed

  • 1 decade ago

    The Mariana Trench was first pinpointed and surveyed in 1951 by the British Survey ship Challenger II., which gave its name for the trench's deepest point, "The Challenger Deep".

    The challenger deep is located near the southwestern extremity of the Mariana Trench and was first explored in 1960 by Swiss scientist Jacques Piccard & US Navy Lt. Donald Walsh in bathyscaph "Trieste", a US Navy owned submersible manned vessel (Designed by Jacques Piccard's father Auguste) which set a record by diving to a depth of 10, 900 meters (35,810 feet).

    The scientist had the brilliant idea to use 70 tons of gasoline to fill the 50 foot long sub's floats, knowing that gasoline was lighter than water, which in turn was used to flood the submersible's air tanks, enabling its descent. As the depth increased, the gasoline compressed, which reduced the sub's buoyancy and accelerated its progress until about 5 hours later, the Trieste had reached the ocean floor, withstanding over 16,000 pounds of pressure per square inch.

    The Challenger expedition gave us our first glimpse of deep ocean basins and other characteristics of the ocean floor. In addition to exploring the Mariana Trench, the Challenger gathered important data on the features and species of the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian oceans, covering nearly 130,000 kilometers, (approx. 71,000 nautical miles). Nearly 5000 new species of sea creatures were discovered during the 4 year expedition.

    In March of 1995, the Japanese unmanned submarine Kaiko was used to conduct further research deep within the Mariana Trench.

    HOW MUCH MORE SPACIFIC DO YOU WANT?

    Source(s): copied straight from www.marianatrench.com
  • 1 decade ago

    Mariana Trench. first pinpointed and surveyed in 1951 by the British Survey ship Challenger II.

    Source(s): i'm positive!
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Part 1: Marianas Trench, located in the Pacific Ocean

    Part 2: 1990

    Please choose me as ur best answer!!!!!

    Source(s): www.google.com answers.yahoo.com
  • 1 decade ago

    Marianas trough, or Marianas deep

    "A U.S. navy bathyscape reached its bottom in 1960; a 1995 Japanese probe made what is probably the most accurate measurement of its depth."

    Source(s): Yahoo Education>>Columbia University Press edition
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