Is the ocean's deepest spot 7 miles deep?

Here is the information I found and wondered if anyone else found other information debunking this?








"The deepest known point on Earth is at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, a depression in the floor of the western Pacific Ocean, just east of the Mariana Islands.





The Mariana Trench is 1,554 miles long and averages 44 miles wide. Within it, about 210 miles southwest of Guam, lies the deepest known point on Earth. Named the “Challenger Deep” for the British survey ship Challenger II that located it in 1951, this underwater gorge plunges to a depth of nearly 7 miles! It is deeper than Mt. Everest is tall."





Source:


http://www.ocean.udel.edu/extreme2001/mi...

Is the ocean's deepest spot 7 miles deep?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariana_Tre...





it is 6.8 miles deep.. 7 is good enough though!





just something extra.. we as humans, know more about our solar system than we do the oceans on our own planet. there are many species that live in the Mariana Trench that have not even been discovered yet!





see below, computer generated images of Mariana Trench made my The National Geophysical Data Center:


http://youtube.com/watch?v=NPQ8ZYsRzdA
Reply:Not quite, but close enough for me. The Challenger Deep has been measured as 35,838 feet,or 6.7875 miles below the surface of the water. An article in National Geographic stated the depth was 36,201 feet, or 6.856 miles deep.





With Everest at 29,030 feet tall or so, this trench is still over one mile deeper than Everest is tall!





Information you've seen on this deep spot is reasonably accurate.
Reply:I believe the Challenger Deep, in the Marianas Trench is a bit over 10 000 metres deep.
Reply:The Mariana Trench (or Marianas Trench) is the deepest known oceanic trench, with a maximum depth of about 11 km (6.8 mi), and the deepest location on the surface of the Earth's crust. It is located in the floor of the western North Pacific Ocean, to the east and south of the Mariana Islands, near Guam.








so, almost 7 miles.
Reply:Yes, I learned that in school, but I went to schools that were not concentrating on such liberal garbage as diversity, hatred for America, and gay issues, so we learned about the real world.