About Mariana Trench: The Mariana Trench is deeper than Mount Everest is tall by more than 2 km. Only three people have ever traveled to the bottom of the Challenger Deep. The water pressure at the bottom is like having about 50 jumbo jets pressing on you. Sunlight never reaches the bottom it is pitch-black and near-freezing all year

Location: Western Pacific Ocean, east of the Mariana Islands · Maximum Depth: About 10,935 m (35,876 ft) at the Challenger Deep the deepest point on Earth · Ocean: Pacific Ocean · Deepest Point: The Challenger Deep · Formation: Formed where one tectonic plate slides beneath another, a process called subduction · Water Pressure: Over 1,000 times the pressure at the surface enough to crush a submarine · Marine Life: Ghostly snailfish and tiny shrimp-like amphipods survive in the darkness · Exploration: First reached by people in 1960; filmmaker James Cameron dived it solo in 2012 · World Rank: The deepest ocean trench on Earth