THE MARIANAS TRENCH

It is located in the western Pacific Ocean, an average of 200 kilometres to the east of the Mariana Islands
It is a crescent-shaped scar in the Earth's crust, and measures about 2,550 km long and 69 km wide on average
It reaches a maximum-known depth of 10,994 metres
although some unrepeated measurements place the deepest portion at 11,034 metres
if Mount Everest were dropped into the trench at this point, its peak would still be over 1.6 kilometres
underwater.

At the bottom of the trench the water column above exerts a pressure of 1,086 bars, more than 1,000 times
the standard atmospheric pressure at sea level.
In turn named Las Marianas in honor of Spanish Queen Mariana of Austria, widow of Philip IV of Spain.
The Pacific plate is subducted beneath the Mariana Plate, creating the Mariana trench, and (further on) the arc
of the Mariana islands, as water trapped in the plate is released and explodes upward to form island volcanoes.
Crustal material at the western edge of the Pacific Plate is some of the oldest oceanic crust on earth (up to 170
million years old),
 THE ENIGMA It is believed that there are
750,000 marine species that have
The interest is maximum since the organisms that not been formally cataloged by
inhabit those depths,
they will have developed unthinkable adaptations. science
It is estimated that the discovered organisms would have a formation
of six millions of years of antiquity what gives to think that they are
At first it was believed that no one lived there but then a Soviet boat remains of the prehistoric life of the planet.
(1958) proved otherwise scientists discovered life. Strange subspecies of
fish unknown by science strangely develop under such conditions (no
light, high pressure and temperatures between 0 and 2 degrees Celsius)
The marine pit is one of the most enigmatic places on the planet that no
human being could access except through the use of technologies, since the
The scientists discovered a species of giant squid of the genus prevailing conditions make an exploration of this type impossible. So it is
Architeuthis, unicellular life forms (plankton, bacteria) and several estimated that this hole, almost bottomless, contains millions of secrets that
abyssal species that develop in the mud of the depths of the pit. may someday be unveiled.

But for the moment they remain safe, intact and sheltered in the
depths of the ocean