Sentences with phrase «ocean trench on»

Plastic pollution is a scourge upon the planet - and it turns out that it's reached the deepest ocean trench on the earth.

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On May 31, 2009, Nereus proved its seafaring mettle and plunged to a depth of 6.8 miles in the Pacific Ocean's Mariana Trench.

Other evidence to bolster this claim includes rock sequences from the deepest point on Earth, the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean.

March 26, 2013Explorer and filmmaker James Cameron and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) have formed a partnership to stimulate advances in ocean science and technology and build on the historic breakthroughs of the 2012 Cameron - led DEEPSEA CHALLENGE expedition exploring deep - ocean trenches.

On its first mission, the new vehicle, called Nereus (rhymes with «serious»), explored the deepest part of the ocean, Challenger Deep — a nearly 7 - mile - deep trench east of the Marianas Islands in the western Pacific.

Due to the extreme pressures of these deep - sea environments and the technical challenges involved in reaching them, ocean trenches are among the least explored environments on the planet.

Taking turns with his shipmates, Wiens swung bright - yellow ocean bottom seismometers and hydrophones off the fantail, and lowered them gently to the water's surface, as the ship laid out a matrix of instruments for a seismic survey on the trench.

The Mariana Trench, the deepest landform on Earth, is in the South Pacific Ocean.

Scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), University of Hawaii, Whitman College and international colleagues will conduct the first systematic study of life in the deepest marine habitat on Earth — ocean trenches.

James Kirkpatrick, a postdoctoral researcher from UC Santa Cruz, is among the scientists on board and posted a report on the web site of the Japan Trench Fast Drilling Project (JFAST), Expedition 343 of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program.

The deepest part of the ocean on Earth, the Mariana Trench, is located along the Ring of Fire in the western portion of the Pacific Ocean Bocean on Earth, the Mariana Trench, is located along the Ring of Fire in the western portion of the Pacific Ocean BOcean Basin.

Back in 2012, news outlets covered a special expedition by filmmaker James Cameron as he dove deep into the sea in his own Deepsea Challenger submersible on 13 dives into the New Britain Trench off Papua New Guinea and the Mariana Trench, where he explored the deepest part of the ocean.

Perched on the edge of the Java Trench (the Indian Ocean's deepest point), the island has some of the longest drop - offs in the world, up to 5000 metres (16,400 feet) deep, and some of those walls are just 20 metres (66 feet) from shore.

Located in the village of Lotofaga, the Sua Ocean Trench was formed when the volcanoes on the island erupted and left this sinkhole, which has since filled with water and vegetation to create a beautiful swimming spot.

Another stand - out example sees Poseidon parting the ocean to create a fierce trench run that allows Pit to soar across the sea bed as walls of surging water close in on him with menacing force.

The Galapagos trench and many other Pacific, Indian Ocean (possibly related to a SW Pacific biogeographic province) and mid-Atlantic trenches have been slowly «unearthed», until recently the faunal diversity was found to be centred on the Antarctic Ocean.