What is at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean?

Creative Commons Kmusser. Click image for license and link. The deepest, darkest, scariest place on the maps I loved pondering as a child was a crescent-shaped canyon in the western Pacific Ocean. Advertisement. read more

The bottom of the Pacific ocean has different ecosystems many of which we have yet to discover. The deepest part of the Pacific, the Mariana Trench gets a lot of attention and oceanographers have filmed the bottom of the deepest point- the challenger deep. read more

The Pacific ocean floor at this site was generated during seafloor spreading from a pattern of ridges and plates that had existed for some unknown period of time. At least five different seafloor spreading centres were involved. read more

He had reached the deepest part of the ocean, the Mariana Trench. Cameron was only the third person to look upon the desolate, almost lunar landscape at the bottom of the trench. Fortunately for the rest of us, he took 3D Hi-Definition cameras with him on the dive. The films he captured show that remarkable sea life exists all the way to the bottom. read more