Sentences with phrase «of deep ocean trenches»

The Hollywood director should reach the bottom of the deepest ocean trench this week.

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10,250 meters: The depth (a little over 6 miles) at which marine experts have discovered human - caused pollution in the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the world's oceans, located in the Pacific.

P: I love space exploration, but I think that many people would be amazed to learn that only two human beings have ever gone to the deepest part of the ocean — the Mariana Trench — and that was more than 30 years ago.

In 1960, Auguste's son Jacques Piccard steered a pressurized steel sphere called a bathyscaphe to the deepest point in the world's oceans, at the bottom of the Mariana Trench.

Deepest point in the ocean is teeming with life At the bottom of the Mariana trench, some 11,000 metres below sea level and at pressures 1100 times those at the surface, bacteria are thriving.

Blockbuster - moviemaker - turned - aquanaut James Cameron's solo dive in the Pacific to the Mariana Trench's Challenger Deep site last month opens up a vast, under - explored region of the world's oceans to researchers.

In certain places along the rim of the oceans, especially the Pacific Rim, the seafloor descends abruptly into deep trenches.

Deep trenches, unexplored surfaces and a long, treacherous journey: Sounds like a voyage to Mars, but it also describes the trip to the bottoms of Earth's own oceans, about which we know even less than the Red Planet.

One independent swimmer, Nereus, has now reached the Pacific's Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the ocean, reports the BBC.

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 PaciDeep — a nearly 7 - mile - deep trench east of the Marianas Islands in the western Pacideep 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.

Humans have been able to venture into just a tiny fraction of Earth's deepest trenches at the bottom of the oceans — and then for only brief visits and at considerable expense.

The Nereus team is preparing for a six - week voyage — funded by the National Science Foundation to the tune of about $ 1.4 million — beginning in February 2014 to study the Pacific Ocean's Kermadec Trench, which is about 10 kilometers deep.

Filmmaker and National Geographic Explorer - in - Residence James Cameron emerges from the DEEPSEA CHALLENGER submersible after his successful solo dive to the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the ocean.

Aug. 8: Opening today, James Cameron's Deepsea Challenge 3 - D recounts Cameron's record - breaking solo expedition to the Mariana Trench, the deepest part of the ocean.

You will find Güralp instruments gathering seismic data in the harshest of environments, from the Antarctic ice sheet; to boreholes 100s of metres deep; to the world's most active volcanoes and deepest ocean trenches.

«The Mariana Trench is the deepest known part of the ocean.

A specialized manipulator arm of the newly built hybrid remotely operated vehicle Nereus samples sediment from the deepest part of the world's ocean — the Mariana Trench.

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.

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A plastic bag was found at the bottom of the Mariana Trench — the deepest part of the ocean.

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.

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The Mariana Trench is the deepest part of the ocean.

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What's more, we keep finding out about fascinating jellyfish superpowers as well as new jellyfish species, as National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) scientists did last week during an excursion probing the Marianas Trench, the deepest part of the world's oceans.

The sink may be one or more of several alternatives including: an underground aquifer, an exhausted oil field, a deep ocean trench, and trees.

Working with the advice of the Marine Conservation Biology Institute, the Environmental Defense Fund, and the Pew Environmental Fund, Bush selected sites that collectively harbor the world's smallest atoll (Rose Atoll - which is home to more than 500 fish species and 97 % of American Samoa's seabirds), several threatened turtle nesting beaches, the deepest ocean canyon in the world (the Mariana Trench, with its otherworldly, undersea volcanoes, acidic thermal vents, liquid sulfur, and incredibly rare life forms), hundreds of species of corals, Hawaiian monk seals, and countless seabirds, rays, sharks, dolphins and whales.

A recent paper published in the journal Marine Policy details the staggering amount of plastic and other debris found at the bottom of the world's deepest ocean trench.

Often these robots are built to go where man can not or at least to complete jobs that a human would have a much tougher time doing, like diving to deep ocean trenches or scurrying amid rubble after a natural disaster looking for people in need of help.