Mariana Trench -- A short Q & A Journey //=\\
The Mariana Trench or Marianas Trench is located in the western Pacific Ocean about 200 kilometres east of the Mariana Islands; it is the deepest. Has anyone been to the bottom of the Mariana Trench? Don Walsh and Jacques Piccard were the first to reach Mariana Trench. Also the first woman to reach Mariana Trench is Kathy Sullivan. Later Film Director, James Cameron to reach the deep. He is in fourth count. Why is Mariana Trench so deep? The Mariana Trench is located at a convergent plate boundary. Here two converging plates of oceanic lithosphere collide with one another. At this collision point, one of the plates descends into the mantle. How old is Mariana Trench? About 180 million years. What is depth of Mariana Trench? It is 11,034 meters (36,000 feet) deep, which is almost 7 miles. Is there anything deeper than the Mariana Trench? The deepest part of the ocean is called the Challenger Deep and is located in the southern end of the Mariana Trench, which runs several hundred kil